Pleased to share my latest research "Zero-shot counting with a dual-stream neural network model" about a glimpsing neural network model the learns visual structure (here, number) in a way that generalises to new visual contents. The model replicates several neural and behavioural hallmarks of numerical cognition.
The world that’s filtered through a sensor<br></br>is more than just a sterile tensor:<br></br>for all the truths in what’s outside,<br></br>the lies en route can’t be denied.<br></br><br></br>You sit behind your brain, I fear,<br></br>and every sense that you hold dear<br></br>is filtered through a lump of fat<br></br>while neuropeptides have a chat.<br></br><br></br>By the time a thing’s in your awareness<br></br>(that sense of conscious being-there-ness)<br></br>the world without’s been warped and twisted<br></br>by worlds within that once existed.<br></br><br></br>The things that you could swear are real<br></br>are mere veneers of what you feel:<br></br>the only truth you’ll ever know<br></br>is writ in what makes ions go –<br></br>and everything you’ve ever seen<br></br>has left a trail of dopamine.<br></br><br></br>Objective truth is nonexistent,<br></br>you’ve but the world that’s most consistent<br></br>with stimuli that came and went.<br></br>Don’t trust the world that’s evident,<br></br>for every rule’s a neural trick<br></br>and life is full of surprises.<br></br>
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What's your position regarding consciousness? Broad physicalism (we'll have a scientific explanation one day) or broad anti-physicalism (science can't give a complete account)? Or something else?
Please repost after voting, I'm genuinely curious! 🤔
@ninokadic@philosophy@philosophyofmind The nature of science's relationship with the world prevents it from giving a "complete" account. It cannot be complete because there is always something else we haven't seen yet.
I can't imagine what a scientific explanation would look like, or how we would know that it was correct, but I also have no reason (other than that) to think we won't someday have one.
Everything we know about the physical world is derived from the contents of consciousness; completing the loop and explaining consciousness in terms of the physical world would be cool. :) But I can't sketch out how it would work.
(Where by "consciousness" I mean subjective experience, not easy stuff that can be straightforwardly measured objectively.)