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vadania who sent me an article on zombies (I might repost at a later date) and telling me not to worry about reading it right now because it had no bearing on my paper:
Oh and don't worry - reading through the papers [pertinent to the paper] has my brain going in ten different directions of thoughts and ideas. For instance I just read about how the understanding of how/why neurons spike utilizing all the neurotransmitters, etc, involved led to an understanding that the molecular actions in neurons were not much different from the actions in other cells and yet "in the brain this molecular dance constituted percept, thought and action" has led ME to question whether or not other cellular structures, such as a muscle, might not also have some strange equivalent to "emotions" and possibly even self-awareness, to the point that it "wants" to perform actions for you and atrophies because it is "sad" that it no longer receives signals when you become paraplegic.
These are not the type of philosophical thoughts I need to be having right now, but this is usually an inevitable reaction on the part of my brain to reading anything within this field.
It's these types of thoughts that Levine had to keep getting out of my head while I was taking his AI class so that I could focus on the actual content that he was trying to teach me.
vadania who sent me an article on zombies (I might repost at a later date) and telling me not to worry about reading it right now because it had no bearing on my paper:Oh and don't worry - reading through the papers [pertinent to the paper] has my brain going in ten different directions of thoughts and ideas. For instance I just read about how the understanding of how/why neurons spike utilizing all the neurotransmitters, etc, involved led to an understanding that the molecular actions in neurons were not much different from the actions in other cells and yet "in the brain this molecular dance constituted percept, thought and action" has led ME to question whether or not other cellular structures, such as a muscle, might not also have some strange equivalent to "emotions" and possibly even self-awareness, to the point that it "wants" to perform actions for you and atrophies because it is "sad" that it no longer receives signals when you become paraplegic.
These are not the type of philosophical thoughts I need to be having right now, but this is usually an inevitable reaction on the part of my brain to reading anything within this field.
It's these types of thoughts that Levine had to keep getting out of my head while I was taking his AI class so that I could focus on the actual content that he was trying to teach me.
