Imagine yourself studying a 4 megapixel digital image only by looking at it one pixel at a time. Yes, you can look at it, and then even write down what color it was. Later you can refer back to this list and see what color a particular pixel was. Its hard to remember more than a few dozen at once though, so how will you ever have a complete picture of it in your head?
I could find and write down a set of instructions that would allow you to determine if there was a face in the image. If you were immortal and I were smarter, I could write down a set of instructions that might enable you to derive the physics of the photographed universe given a few frames.
At this level it’s like the Chinese room.
But I don’t think the ratio between Einstein’s working memory and a normal person’s working memory is 100,000 to 1.
It would be EASY to make instructions to find faces even if someone could only see and remember 1/16th of the image at a time. You get tons of image processing for free. “Is there a dark circle surrounded by a color?”
A human runnable algorithm to turn data into concepts would be different in structure, but not in kind.
Imagine yourself studying a 4 megapixel digital image only by looking at it one pixel at a time. Yes, you can look at it, and then even write down what color it was. Later you can refer back to this list and see what color a particular pixel was. Its hard to remember more than a few dozen at once though, so how will you ever have a complete picture of it in your head?
I could find and write down a set of instructions that would allow you to determine if there was a face in the image. If you were immortal and I were smarter, I could write down a set of instructions that might enable you to derive the physics of the photographed universe given a few frames.
At this level it’s like the Chinese room.
But I don’t think the ratio between Einstein’s working memory and a normal person’s working memory is 100,000 to 1.
It would be EASY to make instructions to find faces even if someone could only see and remember 1/16th of the image at a time. You get tons of image processing for free. “Is there a dark circle surrounded by a color?”
A human runnable algorithm to turn data into concepts would be different in structure, but not in kind.