In a past post, I argued that our best current theory on animal qualia was that animals did feel qualia. In a later post, I…
Tag: Animal Consciousness
Temple Grandin, in her book Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior, argues that her autism is a condition that…
When it comes to animals, it seems what people are most interested in is if animals are “conscious.” However, I’ve criticized the word ‘consciousness’ as…
In three previous posts (here, here, and here) we talked about animal learning, particularly classical conditioning. However, some animals display complex abilities to learn that…
In past posts we’ve looked at the ability of animals to learn and how crucial that is to their evolutionary survival. In this post, we’re…
In a past post, we talked about how animals learn using learning algorithms like classical conditioning. But Donald Campbell pointed out that evolutionary theory has…
Bart once asked me if I felt a correct summary of my “disagreement with Dennis Hackethal over animals” was that Dennis believed animals don’t create…
Is the study of Artificial General Intelligence identical to the study of consciousness? The word “consciousness” is bantered about as if it’s a specific thing.…
I wrote a post asking if humans had ‘inductive biases’ in the same sense that machine learning algorithms do. My conclusion was that they do…
This post is a continuation of my posts on Reinforcement Learning. In my previous posts, I talked up Reinforcement Learning as if it was a…