Oh, I mean more than a pen on a table.
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Replying to @o_guest @kaznatcheev and
And obviously brains do not have infinite tape etc etc
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Replying to @o_guest @maria_ndrnh and
I don't have angle: was trying to clarify/extract what you meant by computation. Interested in intuitions of someone that knows brains & CS.
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Replying to @kaznatcheev @maria_ndrnh and
You could have asked. I think computation is literally something the brain does. That is why I think it's pointless to argue if the brain is
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Replying to @o_guest @kaznatcheev and
a computer because I do not think such questions make sense. A computer is an abstract system that can compute. And a brain is a specific
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instance. Anything the brain does is a computation. I am into broad definitions.
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Replying to @o_guest @maria_ndrnh and
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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Replying to @kaznatcheev @maria_ndrnh and
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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Replying to @o_guest @maria_ndrnh and
So for me, minds compute in ways that pens don't; brains compute in ways that pens do. But that requires Kantian interpretation of CS-thesis
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If you want to explain that a bit more feel free to because I have no idea what you mean. 
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Replying to @o_guest @maria_ndrnh and
Easy way is to link to blog post: https://egtheory.wordpress.com/2014/09/11/transcendental-idealism-and-posts-variant-of-the-church-turing-thesis/ … but I'll try to summarize most relevant point...
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Replying to @kaznatcheev @maria_ndrnh and
is that your blog? OK, I'll read it but I'd also love to get some work done today. I've been so bad getting sucking into this.
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