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malcolmocean comments on Request for Intelligence Philosophy Essay Topic Suggestions - Less Wrong Discussion

3 Post author: malcolmocean 13 March 2015 04:15AM

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Comment author: malcolmocean 13 March 2015 04:41:34PM 1 point [-]

Huh! Yeah, that's super interesting, but it seems like it might be hard to actually tackle. The finding of info on animal intelligence as well as the supporting of specific reasons for human dominance anyway both seem a little messy. I'll put it on the list of options though :)

Comment author: Curiouskid 14 March 2015 04:09:49PM 0 points [-]

Another question I find interesting about animal consciousness I have is whether or not they can recognize cartoons. Cartoons are abstractions/analogies of the real-world. I'm curious if this abstract visual pattern recognition is possessed by animals, or if it requires human-level abstract pattern recognition. There are also some computer vision papers about classifying cartoons, and using artificially generated data-sets (since you mentioned it had to involve humans, animals, and robots).