Internal Representation Quotes

We forget that the world is what we imagine it to be. We stop being the sun and become, instead, the pool of water reflecting it.

The self is merely the lens through which we see others and the world.

As we are, so we see.

The paradigm for intelligence was logical reasoning, and the idea of what an internal representation would look like was it would be some kind of symbolic structure. That has completely changed with these big neural nets.

I never take any notes or draw charts or make elaborate diagrams, but I hold an image of the shape of a book in my head and work from that mental hologram.

I have a picture of myself in my mind as I walk around every day, until I look in the mirror-and then I'm stunned.

I had to create an equivalent for what I felt about what I was looking at - not copy it.

Nothing got inside the head without becoming pictures.

It is my mind, with its store of images, that gives the world colour and sound; and that supremely real and rational certainty which I call "experience" is, in its most simple form, an exceedingly complicated structure of mental images. Thus there is, in a certain sense, nothing that is directly experienced except the mind itself. Everything is mediated through the mind.

What each man does is based not on direct and certain knowledge, but on pictures made by himself or given to him...

In my head there are several windows, that I do know, but perhaps it is always the same one, open variously on the parading universe.

An ideal is merely the projection, on an enormously enlarged scale, of some aspect of personality.

Meaning grows in the mind, but the shape and form of the act remains.

Reality is inside the skull.

We now think of internal representation as great big vectors, and we do not think of logic as the paradigm for how to get things to work. We just think you can have these great big neural nets that learn, and so, instead of programming, you are just going to get them to learn everything.

I am not responsible for actions of the imaginary version of me you have inside your head.

When you're reading something, your imagination goes and you see it in your mind. Sometimes my instincts with that are right, and sometimes they're wrong.

All we can go on is what we think, how we see the world. If you can't trust your own mind what can you trust?

The brain builds a version of the universe and projects this version of the universe like a bubble all around us. So I can say with some certainty, 'I think therefore I am.' But I cannot say, 'You think therefore you are,' because you are within my perceptual bubble.