Why does deep and cheap learning work so well?
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Re: Why does deep and cheap learning work so well?
#52Earlier quoted context omitted.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panpsychism
I was thinking more along the lines that if our minds process outside information in a way that makes sense of that information, partially through simulating it, it does not seem so strange if the structures end up matching the outside structures through some form of convergent evolution. From a cursory reading of that article I do not see it argue the same thing.
Re: Why does deep and cheap learning work so well?
#53Earlier quoted context omitted.
I was thinking more along the lines that if our minds process outside information in a way that makes sense of that information, partially through simulating it, it does not seem so strange if the structures end up matching the outside structures through some form of convergent evolution. From a cursory reading of that article I do not see it argue the same thing.
That the universe is the best simulator of itself? That say, simulating water flowing through a pipe, the system doing the simulation re-formulates itself into something that resembles the pipe and the water?
What is this even supposed to mean? Also, "pipe" and "water" are ridiculously high level constructs, categorisations made by humans. Neither says anything about structures inherent to the universe.
I mean that when working with symmetries, information flow, and fundamental building blocks, certain structures just tend to pop up naturally. Hence fractals and geometrically shapes in places where you might not expect them. Or how laws of thermodynamics suddenly seems to be everywhere in biology all of a sudden now that we started looking[0][1].
[0] http://ecologicalsociology.blogspot.de/2010/11/geoffrey-west...
[1] https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-thermodynamic-answer-to-why...