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In the end - an AI should have these competing subsystems in one system - just as our brains are one system. What I find extremely interesting is how perception and thinking differs from person to person too - it was a "taboo" topic to call this neurodiversity - just as other genetic traits, but AI makes this relevant more than ever imo. Sure, its complicated and much comes from nurture (Nurture vs nature.. as exposure/epigeneticd vs genetics) but there sure are markable differences - the ones starting to stand out are e.g. adhd / autistic people, but Im sure it wont stay just there over time!

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You touch in an important topic here, how our understanding of AI/ML/LLMs will influence our "understanding" of the human brain and intelligence.

My fear is that we will ascribe too much human behaviour to that we see in and understand of our AI inventions, and that this will result in the dehumanisation of people.

So essentially my fear is what we justify doing to each other due to AI, rather than what "AGI" could do to us.

I started seeing this dehumanisation spring up even here on HN, comparing LLMs with human brains and human thoughts as similar regurgitation to LLMs. I’m afraid it will get worse as this technology advances

Even within my immediate family we seem to have distinct differences in our conscious experience. My wife has very little visual or auditory experience of thought, no inner voice even when reading a book. While I mostly experience speaking as a continuous stream of words coming basically from my subconscious, with only a vague sense of what's coming up, one of my daughters says she is consciously aware of the exact words she is going to say several seconds in advance. It's like she has the ability to introspect her internal speech buffer, while I can't.

So while I'm sure there are a lot of custom tuned, problem specific hardware structures in our brain architecture, we do seem to learn how to actually use that hardware individually. As a result we seem to come up with a diverse range of different high level approaches.

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