2023-07-19 15:32:36 +10:00
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stringo = """
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2023-07-19 22:59:50 +10:00
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First, the empirical ‘resemblance’ between brains and neural nets is no
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guarantee that the latter are inherently superior to other, less neurologically ‘realistic’ models of cognition. For it is the nature of the
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appropriate criterion for ‘realism’ that is in question here: should it be
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neurobiological? Or psychological? Churchland cannot simply assume
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that the two necessarily overlap.
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Second, in the absence of any adequate understanding of the precise
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nature of the correlation between psychological function and neural
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structure, whatever putative resemblance might obtain between neural
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architecture and network architecture sheds no light whatsoever on
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the relation between the latter and the abstract functional architecture
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of cognition. Where network architecture is concerned, although some
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degree of biological plausibility is desirable, empirical data alone are not
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2023-07-19 23:02:14 +10:00
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sufficient when it comes to identifying the salient functional characteristics of cognition.10
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We will not pursue this issue further here. But we must now consider
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a still more damaging objection which is frequently raised against EM:
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that its very formulation is fundamentally incoherent.
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"""
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print(
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stringo.replace('\n', ' ')
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)
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