The Emergent Mind: How Intelligence Arises in People and Machines

“So the the idea of the title and really of the book is that intelligence, our intelligence, but also intelligence of our machines emerges from the interaction of simple processing units that themselves are not in any intelligent in the way we understand intelligence.”

“Emergence is everywhere u from galaxies to water to ants. Uh it exists everywhere and it it the book makes the case that that is how we should approach our pursuit of understanding our intelligence.”

“So the the thesis of the book is that this system of associative neurons that are interacting with each other rather like ants interact with each other are also producing our justification and stories for why we do the things that we do. It's the same system that's producing the choice is also producing the reason for the choice.”

“the case we're making in the emerging mind is that it's a deterministic system.”

“He's the co-author with Jay Mlullen of the book The Emergent Mind: How Intelligence Arises in People and Machines, which is our topic for today.”

“n a big theme of this book is and it's deeply disturbing by the way. I I said this is a really extraordinary book. It's a deeply disturbing book because it's the picture you paint of our inner life which is our consciousness and our experience of our mind and h how we make decisions and act in the world”