{"id":196447,"date":"2024-09-20T13:22:39","date_gmt":"2024-09-20T18:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/how-an-algorithm-feels-from-inside"},"modified":"2024-09-20T13:22:39","modified_gmt":"2024-09-20T18:22:39","slug":"how-an-algorithm-feels-from-inside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/how-an-algorithm-feels-from-inside","title":{"rendered":"How An Algorithm Feels From Inside"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-an-algorithm-feels-from-inside.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf a tree falls in the forest, and no one hears it, does it make a sound?\u201d I remember seeing an actual argument get started on this subject\u2014a fully naive argument that went nowhere near Berkeleyan subjectivism. Just:<\/p>\n<blockquote id=\"block1\"><p>\u201cIt makes a sound, just like any other falling tree!\u201d \u201cBut how can there be a sound that no one hears?\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The standard rationalist view would be that the first person is speaking as if \u201csound\u201d means acoustic vibrations in the air; the second person is speaking as if \u201csound\u201d means an auditory experience in a brain. If you ask \u201cAre there acoustic vibrations?\u201d or \u201cAre there auditory experiences?\u201d, the answer is at once obvious. And so the argument is really about the definition of the word \u201csound\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIf a tree falls in the forest, and no one hears it, does it make a sound?\u201d I remember seeing an actual argument get started on this subject\u2014a fully naive argument that went nowhere near Berkeleyan subjectivism. Just: \u201cIt makes a sound, just like any other falling tree!\u201d \u201cBut how can there be a sound [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-information-science","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196447\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}