Tag: cognitive ability

Wired brain illustration - next step to artificial intelligence

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podcast

Pat Flynn and Winston Ewert
Date
February 13, 2025

Tagged
algorithm, cognitive ability, Minding the Brain, neo-Darwinian}

Dr. Winston Ewert: The Human Mind’s Sophisticated Algorithm And Its Implications

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February 13, 2025

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On this episode of Mind Matters News, guest host Pat Flynn begins a conversation with Dr. Winston Ewert about Ewert’s chapter in the recent volume Minding the Brain. In his contribution, titled “The Human Mind’s Sophisticated Algorithm and Its Implications,” Dr. Ewert argues that the human mind’s problem-solving cognition can be modeled as a sophisticated algorithm. Ewert explains that any cognitive task Read More ›

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post

Jonathan Bartlett
Date
February 25, 2019

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Philosophy of Mind

Tagged
Axioms, cognitive ability, Featured, halting problem, Theorems}

Why I Doubt That AI Can Match the Human Mind

_{Computers are exclusively theorem generators, while humans appear to be axiom generators} _{Jonathan Bartlett
February 25, 2019

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Artificial Intelligence, Philosophy of Mind}

My primary reason for doubting that AI can match human intelligence is that the difference between mind and machine is a difference of kind, not of quantity. Understanding the distinction will help us exploit the abilities of each to their maximum potential.