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> There is no magic in the brain.

The amount of hubris we have in our field is deeply embarrassing. Imagine a neuroscientists reading that. The thought makes me blush.

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lern_too_spel2y ago

Neuroscientists would agree with GP, otherwise they would be neuromystics instead of neuroscientists. There is no magic. It's all physical processes that we can eventually understand.

elktownOP2y ago

The entire point was that we do not understand it? That much of how the brain work is "magic" atm.

It's our field that are the alchemist mystics, rambling about AGI/Philosopher's Stone in ever increasingly unhinged ways, while stirring our ML-pots that we have never even tried to prove have a chance to be anymore successful than the alchemists.

lern_too_spel2y ago

Just because we don't understand it doesn't mean it's magic. That's the whole point of science.

> It's _our field_ that are the alchemist mystics, rambling about AGI/Philosopher's Stone in ever increasingly unhinged ways,

These "ramblings" are what scientists call hypotheses. The people making these hypotheses have even proposed how to test them.

elktownOP2y ago

Even with added quotes you can't stop reading it literally? The total lack of critical thinking due to confirmation bias is just as embarrassing.

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lern_too_spel2y ago

Neuroscientists would agree with GP, otherwise they would be neuromystics instead of neuroscientists. There is no magic. It's all physical processes that we can eventually understand.

elktownOP2y ago

The entire point was that we do not understand it? That much of how the brain work is "magic" atm.

lern_too_spel2y ago

Just because we don't understand it doesn't mean it's magic. That's the whole point of science.

> It's _our field_ that are the alchemist mystics, rambling about AGI/Philosopher's Stone in ever increasingly unhinged ways,

These "ramblings" are what scientists call hypotheses. The people making these hypotheses have even proposed how to test them.

elktownOP2y ago

Even with added quotes you can't stop reading it literally? The total lack of critical thinking due to confirmation bias is just as embarrassing.

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