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
Sorry to jump in, but how is your argument sounder than bad ones based on PCs? Why TMs and not say Lambda calculus? ...
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Replying to @kaznatcheev @o_guest and
... lambda calculus is not "clearly" simulating people, in the sense TM was...
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Replying to @kaznatcheev @maria_ndrnh and
Fair point, but what I mean is any computational system is in some way simulating what the brain does, because they both compute.
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Replying to @o_guest @maria_ndrnh and
then why didn't you like the analogy of a pen on table computing the function "stay here"?...
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Replying to @kaznatcheev @o_guest and
... Also, many arguments against brain is computer metaphor argue that brain does MORE (whatever that would mean...) than what TMs do.
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Replying to @kaznatcheev @o_guest and
I think the IP metaphor works best if you assume we are brains in vats and not embodied relational beings
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What is the IP metaphor?
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Replying to @kaznatcheev @o_guest and
Sorry, Information Processing. It's basic assumption is that brain = computer
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I like embodied cognition but don't see how it challenges IP metaphor for physicalist view of computation (note: I don't like that view)...
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Does it have to do with embodiment theories rejecting that the brain computes representations?
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