alt Hacker News>>>There are no true and untrue claims about how the brain works, because we have no idea how it works.
Which is why if you pick up a neuroscience textbook it's 400 pages of blank white pages, correct?
There are different levels of understanding.
I don't need to know how a TV works to know there aren't little men and women acting out the TV shows when I put them on.
I don't need to know how the brain works in detail to know claims that humans are doing the same things as LLMs to be similarly silly.
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naasking • yesterday at 4:29 PM
> I don't need to know how the brain works in detail to know claims that humans are doing the same things as LLMs to be similarly silly.
Yes you do. It's all computation in the end, and isomorphisms can often be surprising.
The trouble is that no one knows enough about how the brain works to refute that claim.