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Alison Gopnik

Berkeley
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Cognitive scientist, psychologist, philosopher, author of Scientist in the Crib, Philosophical Baby, The Gardener & The Carpenter, grandmother of six
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What children can do that AI can’t

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By Alison Gopnik
| Humanist Review of AI
One of the great things about being a grandmother is that you get to tell and retell stories—old and new. Three stories capture different visions of how AI and human intelligence are related. The Golem story is by far the most common tale about AI. Humans are natural animists—we see people everywhere, in streams and trees as well as machines, as anyone who has cursed a printer can testify.
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Living without my self

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By Mette Leonard Høeg, Nigel Warburton Verified, Alison Gopnik
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I don’t feel like I have a self. Most people I encounter speak about their experience as if they have an internal centre of awareness – something inside doing the perceiving and feeling, a centre to their subjective experience. And most people seem to connect this intuitive sense of a singular self to who they were yesterday, last month, last year – to a continuously unfolding life-story stretching back to their earliest childhood memories.
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A world appears - Openforum

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By Nick Haslam, David Chalmers, Alison Gopnik
| Open Forum
Psychology, it’s said, has a long past but a short history. A popular version lists three stages. First, around the turn of the 20th century, psychologists tried to capture the stream of conscious experience in the net of introspection. The behaviourists then declared the mind off limits, arguing that psychology should study observable behaviour rather than subjective experience.
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