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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i don't have a strong opinion on this, it's not my field, but does anyone argue that the brain works like a pc?
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Yes, those who (in my opinion) want to strawman me/others who think like me. See for example Ray Tallis.
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some revolves around "computers are modular, the brain is not modular, hence the brain is not a computer" kind of thing, that's a strawman
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Also the brain is modular just not strictly so. We can V1 V1 for a reason, etc etc.
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ok, i don't think the brain is modular in a fodorian sense.
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certainly not
but I think it's very important IMHO to remember that caricatures like Fodorian modularity and Cartesian dualism end up2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
making us think that there is no modularity or no dualism. There are both for sure, just not in the caricatures that those two created.
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