then why didn't you like the analogy of a pen on table computing the function "stay here"?...
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How broad is broad? Is anything a physical process does a computation (just many of them, like the pen on table, being boring computations)?
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I don't think so, but if you want to be like Searle I'd get exhausted and just say OK after a few "pen is computer" examples.

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I did say anything the brain does — not anything a pen does. So broad but obviously limited.
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Now being pedantic: what if you cut my brain out and put it on table? :P Just trying to get you to be a bit more rigorous with definitions.
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OMG that's actually in my trolling pile not in my helpful criticism pile

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Also I'd argue the principle is charity is way more useful than trying to get me to say brain INSIDE a living human every time I say brain.
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I would argue that's criticism you have just directed at me just for fun/tedium —everybody understands when "brain" means living/in a body.
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Which is fine of course. That's what twitter is for.
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