I'm not claiming there's something "extra" happening in brains. Merely that we just don't know how they work well enough to use that knowledge to do engineering. Neural nets are quite unlike brains, despite the unfortunate shared vocabulary.
replyOTOH we do know how neural nets work, and they definitely don't do "thinking" or "reasoning".
First you have to give a specific definition for thinking and reasoning before determining if they definitely do or don't do such a thing.
replyFair enough, I should have phrased that less strongly. Until you show that your neural net does "thinking" or "reasoning" I'll disregard that and prefer to think about it in terms of what we actually know neural nets actually do. Does that work?
replyJust start with your definition for reasoning. If A implies B, and B implies C, does A imply C? Does that count as reasoning?
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