Any computational process can be emulated by a sufficiently complicated lookup table. We could, if we wished, consider the “conscious mind” to be such a table.
Dismissing the unconscious because it’s supposedly a lookup table is thus wrong in two ways: firstly, it’s not implemented as such a table, and secondly, even if it were, that puts no limitations, restrictions, or reductions on what it’s capable of doing.
The original statement in question is not just factually incorrect, but conceptually misguided, and the likely harm to the resulting model’s usefulness incalculable.
Any computational process can be emulated by a sufficiently complicated lookup table. We could, if we wished, consider the “conscious mind” to be such a table.
Dismissing the unconscious because it’s supposedly a lookup table is thus wrong in two ways: firstly, it’s not implemented as such a table, and secondly, even if it were, that puts no limitations, restrictions, or reductions on what it’s capable of doing.
The original statement in question is not just factually incorrect, but conceptually misguided, and the likely harm to the resulting model’s usefulness incalculable.