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Vladimir_Nesov comments on Why I Moved from AI to Neuroscience, or: Uploading Worms - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 13 April 2012 09:22:34PM 10 points [-]

Humans certainly can't be factorized in that way.

Humans aren't factorized this way, whether they can't is a separate question. It's not surprising that evolution's design isn't that neat, so the fact that humans don't have this property is only weak evidence about the possibility of designing systems that do have this property.