Do you think it's reasonable to describe what a computer program for automated theorem proving, chess playing, etc. does as "thinking"?
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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Potentially, yes. A piece of chalk just sitting there is not currently thinking, but a piece of chalk being used on a blackboard is. (I distinguish "thinking" and "having subjective experience" and I'm trying to figure out how much that clashes with people's intuition)
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that was a stupid way for me to put it because I meant that the chalk obeys gravity and falls down on the ground if you drop it - thinking?
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re: 3 - it’s hard for me to take this perspective since human thinking doesn’t appear to be following “steps” - that seems like an attempt to pretend that humans are simple computers because we can emulate them
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Yeah I'm certainly not claiming that the way that a human normally thinks proceeds by following steps. I'm asking if it still counts as thinking when they do.
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