Just had one if these long discussions with a smart mathematician, and now I notice that sometimes I get the impression that computationalism (the only working philosophical edifice left) is non-obvious to 90% of people. I find that genuinely puzzling.
The idea of mechanism is older than Aristotle. Computationalism is the modern framing. It does not depend on any technology. It is the first time that we can frame mechanism without alluding to metaphors, and can also deal properly with time, space, identity and subjectivity.
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of course it does depend on technology. remember when Ra used to swim in a boat across the sky? and a bit later Helios used a chariot? neither used the plane, as it did not exist yet.
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exhibit №2 aka Flammarion's engraving - note the wheels that keep the universe spinning. now fast forward to 1999 - this is how Flammarion's engraving could look now when we have computerspic.twitter.com/EASgrQxD4w
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