People like to comment on how people of any age model the mind on their most advanced machines
- This tweet and the responses to it give a collection of prior models: https://x.com/birchlse/status/1830281613999243485
Some greeks thought the mind must be in the throat, since thats where speech was produced
The Sensus communis in aristotle’s de anima may have been the original source of the idea of a cartesian theatre
See also Averroes’ theory of the unity of the intellect
How early could you have had the idea of the unconscious? Once you have the idea of limited computing capacity I feel like you have to have it for infrabayesian reasons. The question rhymes with questions about technological change, how early could you foresee the singularity, soaking the nut in water, etc.
- Well is buddhist seed consciousness just the same kinda thing? That’s way earlier if so. I wonder if it was an inspiration for Freud, and if so what’s the connection?