[FRIAM] Shorthands for Brain-stuff

[Frank Wimberly]

https://www.cmu.edu/dietrich/philosophy/docs/glymour/glymour-kim1999.pdf

I hope that link works.  I have posted it here before.  Please read it if
you're interested in this topic.  Glymour is my erstwhile boss and
co-author.

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Frank C. Wimberly
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On Mon, Oct 5, 2020, 11:04 AM Marcus Daniels <marcus at snoutfarm.com> wrote:

> Russ wrote:
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> < A probabilistic version of LaPlacian causality may be more or less
> correct, but the number of levels at which one has to apply it in any
> complex situation makes it virtually impossible to use. An approximate
> approach like Glen suggests may be the best we can do--at least for now. >
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> Use for what?    Understanding what it might mean to be alive or designing
> a system for regulating the behavior of each other?  Or predicting
> behavior?  Or what?   The impulse that I object to is inventing an
> unrealistic fantasy like free will just for the sake of reducing cognitive
> dissonance.   I can’t be necessary to adopt what amounts to a religion in
> order to function with one another.
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> Marcus
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