Humans do something other than follow algorithms: An algorithm has 1) an input, and 2) an output that's related to the input in a prescribable way (i.e. it has to halt—Turing) Creativity can't be an algorithm, because one can't specify criteria for what the output would be.
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Is it not the case we can do that if we want to? If you give me two numbers, I can add them together and tell you the answer. We can do other things, though. And I could decline to do the calculation. Is that what you mean?
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Well… I can’t actually give you two numbers. I can only perform physical actions, such as writing a numeral on a piece of paper. Then we can agree that the number represents a non-physical thing; but no one has been able to coherently explain what “represents” means.
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Mainstream rationalists are bizarrely willing to casually assert causal relationships between mathematical objects and physical ones, while simultaneously insisting that they are strict physicalists and that anyone who posits non-physical entities is deluded by woo.
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“Rationalism was practically *invented* to get rid of them!”pic.twitter.com/xA5Tx8E3CX
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