Mark Linsenmayer
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first heard Jun 2026
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The fact that he invented the term artificial intelligence is shocking to me, given that I've never heard of them, but
Uh all right, so here's the quote from John McCarthy, two page two twenty four.
I would like to speak briefly maybe he we need a British accent I would like to speak briefly about the some of the advantages of the pandemonium model as an actual model of conscious behavior.
In observing a brain, one should make a distinction between the aspect of the behavior which is available consciously, and those behaviors no doubt equally important, but which proceed unconsciously.
If one conceives of the brain as a pandemonium, a collection of demons, perhaps
Perhaps what is going on within the demons can be regarded as the unconscious part of thought and what the demons are publicly shouting for each other to hear as the conscious part of thought.
Mark, but you didn't
been, let's say put it that way.
distributed processes are the collection of of demons, are the collection of dumb homunculi that are just doing one little discriminating task.
What is going on with them?
Well it's okay to have homunculi, they just have to be stupid homunculi.
But I guess what you're asking is is there a what it's like to be the homunculus?
Probably not.
Just it's just that you're doing something.
So you can have a kind of is your agents must be.
Your your clod agents do not have a a what it's like to be that particular clod agent.
Right.
There is a discrimination that is going on.
And as you said, there's probably lots of little micro discriminations going on that then
by a different part of the brain are pulled together in the one macro this is a chair feeling on my leg.
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