Beyond Zero and One (Andrew Smart) / quote 97 of 171
What if the brain doesn't represent the world?
Modern neuroscience, psychology, and artificial intelligence often implicitly assume that our senses determine the contents of our conscious experience. The assumption is that the brain is primarily reflexive and simply exists to respond to the environment. The task of AI is to create systems that respond to the environment like the human brain responds. It follows that AI tries to mimic how the brain represents the world. But what if the brain does not represent the external world at all?