AI interpretability doesn’t rewrite 50 years of philosophy of mind, says a quoted reply
round · x · 2026-07-25
A reply quoting Edwin Hutchins argues that recent AI interpretability results do not force any revision of the last 50 years of philosophy of mind.
The counterpoint is that computers were built around formal symbol manipulation, while decades of cognitive science can be seen as efforts to remake humans in the computer’s image.
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