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In an important sense, each of us is a brain in a vat — a profound intelligence who builds internal models of the outside world while being unaware of the many spaces our components actually work in.

Used to argue that humans and AI are both in a similar epistemic position relative to embodiment — neither has unmediated access to reality

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AI: a Bridge toward Diverse Intelligence and Humanity’s Future
(2024) · Michael Levin

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