That is true. We didn't INVENT human brains though, so it feels different, to me at least, that we're forced to treat it like an alien system and study it from the outside in odd ways to try to collect enough outside data to improve our understanding.
Not saying it doesn't have value to try... Like... We might as well try as best we can... But in this case it feels very strange and "self-fullfilling prophecy" to me.
I agree that we need multiple independent corroborating evidence routes. Having more psychologists/neuroscientists working in interpretability might be a good idea.
We have a lot of flashlights without a ground truth in neuroscience too, yet we seem to make decent progress every now and then.
That is true. We didn't INVENT human brains though, so it feels different, to me at least, that we're forced to treat it like an alien system and study it from the outside in odd ways to try to collect enough outside data to improve our understanding.
Not saying it doesn't have value to try... Like... We might as well try as best we can... But in this case it feels very strange and "self-fullfilling prophecy" to me.
I agree that we need multiple independent corroborating evidence routes. Having more psychologists/neuroscientists working in interpretability might be a good idea.