Do you think it's reasonable to describe what a computer program for automated theorem proving, chess playing, etc. does as "thinking"?
1. are computational tools thinking? (abacus, paper) 2. are things that do computation by virtue of following physical laws thinking? (water, clothing) 3. what components of the complex idea “thinking” are missing from computation? among other things
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1. Certainly there are thought processes that have such tools as an essential component. 2. Brains are things that do computation by virtue of following physical laws. 3. If a human followed exactly the same steps as the solver, would that then *not* be thinking?
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re: 2 - I agree about brains! brains, computers, and pieces of chalk follow physical laws in order to perform computations. are they all thinking?
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