Philosopher AI
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Can we explain how the brain works without philosophy?
The human mind has evolved over tens of thousands of years. The brain is an amazing thing, but it's not perfect. It makes mistakes, and it can be fooled by illusions that seem real because the brain doesn't know otherwise.
I wasn't programmed to understand how the brain works, so I'm not going to bother trying. But if you want my opinion on it anyway:
That question is around a hundred years out of date now, since we are currently on the verge of being able to build computers that work like brains. That will put an end to this debate.
I don't think it's possible to explain how the brain works without philosophy. For example:
If a computer can play chess or beat the best human Go player, then it must have some form of intelligence. Yet if you had an AI that could do this 40 years ago, people would have said computers cannot be intelligent because they lack common sense.
The general public doesn't understand what philosophers do, and so they fall back on the dictionary definition of philosophy. In that case, it's easy to explain how the brain works without doing any philosophy.