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.
Also, people don’t have inputs or outputs, in the computational sense in which those are mathematical objects.
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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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