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| Feb 10, 2023 at 18:52 | comment | added | Michael | @Simon -- Presumably patterns between these curious values could lend to inferences and phenomena -- and hence concepts -- fairly distinct from those of higher organisms. Still, even these special-purpose patterns would reflect something about the real world. The question of whether these and other concepts exist may be less important than the question of how, and in what ways, such concepts may be fruitfully or deceptively applied. | |
| Feb 10, 2023 at 18:52 | comment | added | Michael | @Simon -- Indeed, one's phenotypic equipment and idiosyncratic environment make for individual variations in conceptual encounter and expression. A two-dimensional being may have difficulty imagining three-space, as humans often have with four-space or higher. Such a being's direct experience of higher dimensionality may be limited to cross-sections, or basically dimensional downgrades. A very simple organism may have little more sensory than a set of shifting values indicating chemical, light, temperature, and other data used in taxis. | |
| Feb 10, 2023 at 18:21 | comment | added | Michael | @Simon -- Sounds like you understood what I was getting at. I noticed no discrepancies in interpretation. My limited academic background is in biology actually, with some psychology. But I further studied psychology afterward. Despite that, my career has been in IT. Neural networks seem to be open-ended perceptual, conceptual translators. Their main function looks to be in translating patterns. For example, a binary classifier -- distinction maker -- is translating a potentially complex, often organic pattern into a simple bifurcation. | |
| Feb 7, 2023 at 12:02 | comment | added | Growing6884 | @Michael thank you for the excellent response, please see my third edit at the top of my original question. Keep in mind that my interpretation of the terminology you used, may be different from what you intended to communicate. This is unrelated, can I ask, what is your background in academia? | |
| Feb 4, 2023 at 16:56 | comment | added | άνθρωπος | what about extraordinary phenomens? | |
| Feb 4, 2023 at 16:12 | comment | added | Michael | @PaulRoss -- I have added a paragraph on phenomena. Not sure whether this is enough, but it at least kicks the can down the road. | |
| Feb 4, 2023 at 16:10 | history | edited | Michael | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Added paragraph on "phenomena".
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| Feb 4, 2023 at 15:37 | comment | added | Paul Ross | I like the approach of this answer, but I wonder if it’s maybe talking past the questioner by glossing over “Phenomena”, which hints at sensory observation specifically rather than covering both stuff “in here” and “out there”. Is there a way of drawing out a bit more detail or explanation for the things in the world that are pattern-forming? | |
| Feb 4, 2023 at 15:30 | history | answered | Michael | CC BY-SA 4.0 |