wedrifid comments on It's not like anything to be a bat - Less Wrong

15 Post author: Yvain 27 March 2010 02:32PM

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Comment author: wedrifid 27 March 2010 07:18:27PM *  3 points [-]

It's a fact that current humans are very bad at modeling any minds, including their own.

"Very bad" compared to what? We are brilliant at modelling minds relative to our ability for abstract reasoning, mathematics and, say, repeating a list of 8 items we were just told in reverse order.

Comment author: Kutta 27 March 2010 09:32:59PM *  3 points [-]

Trying to imagine neurons and simulating firings by doing mental arithmetic still seems to be far-fetched, which is the kind of modeling I meant.