Data Science @Shopify [Insert tautological statement about my opinions here]
Dec 9, 2018 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
For anyone looking for a refreshingly different take on intelligence from, say, what you get in a raging twitter debate between connectionists and symbolists, I highly recommend Peter Godfrey-Smith’s Other Minds. Some highlights… 1/9
An important part of perception is the ability to distinguish between things you sense that are caused by your own actions, and things you sense that have a purely external cause. A solution to this problem is to make an “efference copy” of your actions. 2/9