Brain Metaphors and the Simplicity Illusion: What AI Epistemology Gets Wrong

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Every era's brain metaphor has been wrong—hydraulics, telephone switchboards, computers. ML Street Talk explores why the computational mind is likely no different, and what this means for AI's claims to understand reality.

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