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• brainonfire.net commented on What I did this weekend
  How much longer are you in Boston for?...
• Charlie Stross commented on What I did this weekend
  djeak: you probably hear an echo of Daniel Dennett ("Consciousness Explained") rather than Jaynes (who is a bit barking, not to mention as Wrong As Wrong Can Be, AIUI, but in an interestingly unusual direction)....
• Sean Eric Fagan commented on What I did this weekend
  I had a long comment about intelligence, definitions, language, and alienness, but I decided (ironically) it was incoherent. The important part of it was the beginning: I think that the biggest failure of the AI people, over the years, was to not have an objective, testable definition for intelligence. Instead, they focused on particular tasks. I think language requires intelligence; I don't believe the inverse is true. Self-awareness may require some amount of language, however -- but I have no idea how you'd go about doing an objective test for self-awareness. Do you?...
• Sean Eric Fagan commented on What I did this weekend
  How do you define "art"? There are lots of animals that engage in creative displays (various birds make nests to attract mates, for simply one example). How do you know other animals don't have religion?...