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I keep on stumbling on this story, yet i can't seem to be able to grasp it.

We have senses so our brain has some sort of a priori knowledge of the world? We're all almost blind when we born.

The point of Minsky's action is to demonstrate to Sussman that Sussman's intent is essentially "if you can't see it, it's not there", but of course the room doesn't become empty when Minsky closes his eyes - the neural net won't lose preconceptions just because you randomly wired it, you just lose the ability to see and control what those preconceptions are.

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