Orit Halpern
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first heard May 2026
last heard 7 Sep
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But actually, no, it's actually the foundation of AI today.
And essentially, it was a reframing of then Scheiden's problem, which was a question of what's the limit of computation?
What's the limit of what we can represent logically in the world?
And their answer to that wasn't an intuitive one.
It was to build a new form of experiment.
McCulloch called these epistemological experiments.
Why?
Because they would test what we thought we knew about computing and what we thought we knew about thinking.
And the experiment went something like this.
Imagine you have a neuron, which we do.
Imagine that the neuron...
fires on or off, which it does more or less a little more complexly.
Imagine that that on-off is the equivalent of a logic statement.
True-false, right-wrong, yes-no.
If you imagine all these things, then we've just broken the entire brain-body split.
We've shown that there's actually a material grounding to the brain and to thought, to higher level thinking.
And not only that, we've reframed both what a computer can be because these are logical statements being made by supposedly a biological entity.
And we've rethought what a brain could be because it's built up from these little units.
I would say pessimistic optimism might be the right term.
I mean, that might be the right term for the age.
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