Consciousness, cont.
now on p. 127 there's something more to do with objectivity...
they're talking about how to apply information theory to brains, and how this presents 2 problems: that there's no "neural code", and that there's no external intelligent observer, or at least not within the system itself. so they decide to talk about differences that make a difference to the brain itself.
- A simple approach is to consider the system as its own "observer."
I had been thinking that a possible comp paper topic might be something like "Practical Notions of Objectivity" and maybe this is all coming together a little bit more. I'd like to go further into some of the things I was saying in my paper for Laura's class, both the bits about the types of objectivity, and about strategies for getting objective results. maybe also the bits about how this applies to AI, but mostly the more theoretical part, about objectivity in evaluations of intelligence. This could be made a bit more general, and so apply more widely than just to AI, so that it could also have to do with neuroscience / philosophy of mind. an example there would be these confusing questions about consciousness and how objectivity / subjectivity is also a blocking point there. I'm still confused, obviously, but maybe this is the beginning of some kind of direction.
I'm still undecided whether it woulld be better to take the Cognitive Neuroscience course I'm signed up for, or the Metaphysics and Epistemology Core course in the Philosophy Dept. I think both are important things to have as foundations, but I don't know what should come first. I'm leaning towards M & E, because I feel less sure of myself in that area, and for the philosophy comp, being good at that angle might be more important. So I should maybe do the CNBC courses a little later, or only where I can fit them in without fucking up anything else. The main consideration against that is that I feel guilty about hot being as involved in the CNBC as perhaps I should be. I guess it doesn't matter that much, as long as I take all the courses eventually. The only possible one for next semester is the computational course, but I wanted to take that after doing the rest of them so that I'd know enough to make an informed choice about what sort of project to do for that course, since I have this idea of doing a good project that might be publishable. So I guess I could just not do a CNBC course this year.
anyway, I think I'm going to try to use this blog as a place to take some notes and record some thoughts about things that might end up in my comp paper.
they're talking about how to apply information theory to brains, and how this presents 2 problems: that there's no "neural code", and that there's no external intelligent observer, or at least not within the system itself. so they decide to talk about differences that make a difference to the brain itself.
- A simple approach is to consider the system as its own "observer."
I had been thinking that a possible comp paper topic might be something like "Practical Notions of Objectivity" and maybe this is all coming together a little bit more. I'd like to go further into some of the things I was saying in my paper for Laura's class, both the bits about the types of objectivity, and about strategies for getting objective results. maybe also the bits about how this applies to AI, but mostly the more theoretical part, about objectivity in evaluations of intelligence. This could be made a bit more general, and so apply more widely than just to AI, so that it could also have to do with neuroscience / philosophy of mind. an example there would be these confusing questions about consciousness and how objectivity / subjectivity is also a blocking point there. I'm still confused, obviously, but maybe this is the beginning of some kind of direction.
I'm still undecided whether it woulld be better to take the Cognitive Neuroscience course I'm signed up for, or the Metaphysics and Epistemology Core course in the Philosophy Dept. I think both are important things to have as foundations, but I don't know what should come first. I'm leaning towards M & E, because I feel less sure of myself in that area, and for the philosophy comp, being good at that angle might be more important. So I should maybe do the CNBC courses a little later, or only where I can fit them in without fucking up anything else. The main consideration against that is that I feel guilty about hot being as involved in the CNBC as perhaps I should be. I guess it doesn't matter that much, as long as I take all the courses eventually. The only possible one for next semester is the computational course, but I wanted to take that after doing the rest of them so that I'd know enough to make an informed choice about what sort of project to do for that course, since I have this idea of doing a good project that might be publishable. So I guess I could just not do a CNBC course this year.
anyway, I think I'm going to try to use this blog as a place to take some notes and record some thoughts about things that might end up in my comp paper.
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