Quote: psychology must posit internal representations, but something is a representation only for or to someone; i.e., a homunculus that leads to an infinite regress

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I think AI has broken the back of … skeletal version of it: First, the only psychology … [p. 720] But, second, nothing is intrinsically a representation … Such an interpreter is then a sort of … infinite regress, so psychology is impossible. … [AI's] Data-structures may or may not be biologically … examples of representations that can be said in … [p. 721] If one can get a team or … is progress. … Eventually this nesting of boxes within boxes lands … or no when asked) that they can be, … armies of such idiots to do the work. … [p. 722] We can all be relieved and encouraged … [this problem], but it has yet to be shown that AI's way …   Google-1   Google-2

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Quote: AI's data structures are primitive examples of representations that understand themselves; can conceivably replace the homunculus with an army of mechanical homunculi

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