For the skinny on where cognition really is at, here's Gyuri Buzsaki's short but sweet The Brain—Cognition Behavior Problem:
It's got some very interesting takes on the question of when cognition starts and how Philosophers think about it, ideate it as a concept, with a side-journey into ascribing AI systems with consciousness.
The table has 56 elements.
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This is AI slop.
The core argument of the article doesn't seem to have much value as it's based around some vague link between two unrelated fields of science (the periodic table and philosophy), but perhaps the more interesting part is the impact AI is having on science.
After "Isaac Newton, who may have been the smartest person who ever lived" the level of trust fell drastically.
Sure, the periodic table was extremely useful and we were using electricity before we understood it, but we understand LLMs far better, mostly because they are our own creation.
Maybe the lines between exploration, creation and discovery are fuzzy sometimes, but this article tips over into AI propaganda.
