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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Replying to @reasonisfun
Wondering how many “The Church-Turing Thesis proves that’s impossible; you are advocating supernatural woo” replies you will get to this.
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There are many (non-supernatural!) computations that don't halt, and don't produce an output. For example, trying to compute a noncomputable function. Ditto crashing (assuming you don't count crashing as an output). Not all computation is algorithmic (in the above sense).
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Also, people don’t have inputs or outputs, in the computational sense in which those are mathematical objects.
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Replying to @Meaningness @reasonisfun
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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Can you elaborate on the connection to creativity? I'm missing the creativity <-> propositions link
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Yes, sorry, I was just using propositions as a handy example of a non-physical entity rationalists often give causal roles to. (Text scarfed from book draft.) Algorithms are another example. I was probably wrong to barge into @reasonisfun’s stream of thought.
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Replying to @Meaningness @reasonisfun
Oh I see. No worries, the stream took a turn and I kept going straight. :)
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