I'm not a religious person, but surely atheists have better arguments than this! If so, why can brains make computers but computers can't make brains?https://twitter.com/Micksparklfc/status/974646192054439936 …
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David Graeber Retweeted Michael James
I'm not a religious person, but surely atheists have better arguments than this! If so, why can brains make computers but computers can't make brains?https://twitter.com/Micksparklfc/status/974646192054439936 …
David Graeber added,
(since I was mentioned here:) If brains are computers, it follows that computers are made by computers. If brains are large, complicated computers set up in a very specific way that we have not fully figured out yet, it would not be surprising that brains cannot make brains yet.
"set up" is a transitive verb. It implies some demiurgic force. This is one reason the computer metaphor seems so odd to me, especially coming from atheists. Computers are tools that someone created to serve a purpose. Brains are not.
Computer scientists define computers not as manmade tools, so this might be the source of our disagreement. A computer is a system that can change state in ways that are not completely random, and emulate a Turing Machine or something equally powerful, within its resource limits.
if brains are ALREADY computers, as that definition implies, you would not be able to say computers will eventually make brains because there is no difference between the two. If there is a difference, my objection still holds. Be consistent!
If all brains are computers, it does not follow that all computers are brains.
I know. Re-examine your argument. You will discover that you used the term "computer" in two mutually exclusive ways.
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