[HN Gopher] On The Origin Of Minds
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       On The Origin Of Minds
        
       Author : optimalsolver
       Score  : 13 points
       Date   : 2021-10-21 10:22 UTC (12 hours ago)
        
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       | slowmovintarget wrote:
       | Thesis:
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       | > Cognition comprises the means by which organisms become
       | familiar with, value, exploit and evade features of their
       | surroundings in order to survive, thrive and reproduce.
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       | Call-to-action:
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       | > I called the view of cognition grounded in ideas originating in
       | human experience and reflection the _anthropogenic_ (human-born)
       | approach, what Buzsaki calls 'outside-in'. Although cognitivism
       | asserts that cognition can be realised in different physical
       | forms (including robots), the approach remains anthropogenic
       | because it derives from the human capacity to compute numbers.
       | The contrast case is what I call the _biogenic_ (life-born)
       | approach, which privileges the biological mode of existence as
       | the source of cognition and entails the 'inside-out' view.
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       | The author uses the analogy of moving to a Sun-centered view of
       | the solar system instead of an Earth-centered view. She presents
       | a line of argument in the article for her position. (Worth
       | reading, in my opinion.)
        
       | carapace wrote:
       | In re: Michael Levin, do see his talks "What Bodies Think About:
       | Bioelectric Computation Outside the Nervous System"
       | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjD1aLm4Thg and "Anatomical
       | decision-making by cellular collectives"
       | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-9rLlFgcm0
        
       | grzff wrote:
       | Fauci funded COVID-19: https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/nih-
       | admits-funding-gain-f...
       | 
       | Everyone involved should face the firing squad.
        
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