Humans are Empathy Machines

Carlos E. Perez
Nov 3 · 6 min read
Photo by 🇨🇭 Claudio Schwarz | @purzlbaum on Unsplash

“We Are Not Thinking Machines. We Are Feeling Machines That Think.” — Antonio Damasio

Anil Seth calls us a “Beast Machine”. Along the same lines, I’ve argued that we are “Intuition Machines”. The argument goes that biological brains gain an understanding of their world through the embodiment in its environment. Understanding can be understood as fitness from…

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Carlos E. Perez

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Author of Artificial Intuition and the Deep Learning Playbook — http://linkedin.com/in/ceperez https://twitter.com/IntuitMachine

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