If the operations of the brain can be separated out and stratified, then perhaps we can construct something akin to just the top layer, and achieve (AI) while bypassing the messy flesh that characterizes organic life.
I loved the idea of constructing something.
On Thursday, Bush handed out another goodie: a rule that largely frees federal agencies from having to consult independent biologists before constructing something that could lead to the extinction of birds, fish or other endangered species.
After careful consideration Bolzano decided against the view to define a proposition as something constructed out of ideas (i.e., as a connection of two arbitrary ideas by means of the copula [has]) (WL II, 18); he rather suggested that we define ideas as those parts of a proposition which are not themselves propositions (WL I, 216, WL II, 18).
For Brouwer, mathematical concepts are admissible only if they are adequately grounded in intuition, mathematical theories are significant only if they concern entities which are constructed out of something given immediately in intuition, and mathematical demonstration is a form of construction in intuition.
In her new collection, a narrator-writer who has been caught out making fiction from a relative's life defends herself by reflecting that her business is "more like grabbing something out of air than constructing stories".
It looks like a body more than something constructed out of pieces.
In short, Williamsonian tropes are constructed out of something else, making them incompatible with trope primitivism.
She is not thinking, in particular, of the story she "would make about" her father's cousin, but of "the work I wanted to do, which seemed more like grabbing something out of the air than constructing stories".
NW: You can pretty much construct things out of other things, right?
