i mean, what's a computer? searle once put a pen on a desk saying: "it's a computer with a simple program: stay there."
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omg what a wank
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lots of arguments against comp theory take some property of a computer and show that the brain does not have it, so one needs to clarify.
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When you say a computer though you mean a PC? When I say computer I mean formalised definition of Turing Machine which is based on person.
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A Turing Machine was literally created as a computational/mathematical definition of what the women who worked at Bletchley park did.
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So to say the brain is not a computer you would, in my opinion, have to show it doesn't compute. And that would demonstrate (somehow) that
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what Turing built, a computer, to model those women was wrong. But it works and he wasn't.
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But like I said, I don't particularly want to "decovert" people from their definition of computer or convince anything I am right.
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I don't actually believe in convincing people in many cases as I don't think it's a valuable exercise.
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haha, i love scientific debate and i often leave debates with a different point of view, i just don't like when things get personal
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I don't mind them but I need to get work done. 
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