timtyler comments on The Curve of Capability - Less Wrong

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Comment author: timtyler 06 June 2011 07:23:35PM *  0 points [-]

calling this "symbolic processing" assumes a particular theory of mind, and I think it is mistaken

Interesting. Can you elaborate or link to something?

Susan Blackmore argues that what originally caused the "huge increase in optimization power" was memes - not symbolic processing - which probably started up a bit later than the human cranium's expansion did.