It's a computer. Just not one from metal and plastic.https://twitter.com/dankessler/status/826594027625590784 …
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Replying to @o_guest
Yeah I agree with you. I think her argument was in the spirit that using principles of silicon computers can be misleading
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Replying to @o_guest
to further contextualize, the full quote started "a bird is not an airplane, brain is not a computer..." but twitter char limits...
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Replying to @dankessler
well yes and no. So a brain is a computer. It's a computer, because a computer is a formalised maths object. An airplane isn't.
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Replying to @o_guest @dankessler
Alan Turing defined a Turing machine based on the simple computations carried out by computers (women) and then we build digital
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Replying to @o_guest @dankessler
computers based on the mathematical theories of Turing and many others.
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Replying to @o_guest
Those are all excellent points, esp insofar as "computer" is a formalized math construct
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Replying to @dankessler
yeah, although obviously we don't have infinite tape but that's just a simplification.
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Replying to @o_guest
I'm hoping to raise some of your points at a roundtable with
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it's really basic undergrad computer/cognitive science, so I'm sure they know. But you'll have nice convos regardless I bet.
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