1/ I want to very briefly address this article that came out today by @matthewcobb in the Guardian:https://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/feb/27/why-your-brain-is-not-a-computer-neuroscience-neural-networks-consciousness …
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"Cells and brains are in this category". How do we know that constructive mathematics can model the hardware it's built on ? Isn't there a recursion or incompleteness ala godel issue?
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No, Gödel had shown a problem with the semantics of classical mathematics, to which constructivism is the alternative. A computer can in principle implement every other computer.
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"Subjective perception takes place in a virtual world, generated by the computer. " Is that really a meaningful distinction, if reductionism and materialism is true?
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Here is a presentation on that topichttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3K5UxWRRuY …
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