The key word here is two. Two types of blinks, two vowel sounds, two different anything, really, can with suitable combinations convey all types of information.
“Is knowledge the same thing as intelligence? No, but knowledge is an intelligence amplifier, if intelligence is, among other things, the ability to act nimbly and powerfully in your environment.”
― Our Final Invention: Artificial Intelligence and the End of the Human Era
― Our Final Invention: Artificial Intelligence and the End of the Human Era
“Nobody exists on purpose. Nobody belongs anywhere. Everybody's gonna die. Come watch TV”
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“Trust to yourself; let our own eyes determine;
Be they our tripods, oracles, and gods.”
― Oedipe de Corneille et Oedipe de Voltaire
Be they our tripods, oracles, and gods.”
― Oedipe de Corneille et Oedipe de Voltaire
“If you could blow the brain up to the size of a mill and walk about inside, you would not find consciousness.”
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“Some philosophers hold that philosophy is what you do to a problem until it’s clear enough to solve it by doing science. Others hold that if a philosophical problem succumbs to empirical methods, that shows it wasn’t really philosophical to begin with.”
― RePresentations: Philosophical Essays on the Foundations of Cognitive Science
― RePresentations: Philosophical Essays on the Foundations of Cognitive Science
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