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Gooblebrai 8 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Yann LeCun to depart Meta and launch AI startup fo...

> humans have a direct experience of reality not mediated by as Alan Kay put it three pounds of oatmeal

Is he advocating for philosophical idealism of the mind or does he has an alternate physicalist theory?

numpy-thagoras 8 months ago [–]

I don't think he actually understands direct realism, idealism, or representational realism as distinctions whatsoever.

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