What was a metaphor? That the brain performs computations? It does.
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Replying to @o_guest @aeryn_thrace
Well, we disagree but it's not one we can solve or discuss over Twitter.
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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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Replying to @o_guest @maria_ndrnh and
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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Replying to @o_guest @maria_ndrnh and
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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ok, and vice versa, right? to say the brain is a computer you have to show it computes
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But computes is defined by the brain itself. The whole concept was created to describe the women at Bletchley park. So why show something
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that is true by definition? It's like defining black as 000 in RGB and then asking me to prove it's black. I can but it's kind of pointless?
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