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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Replying to @o_guest @kaznatcheev and
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 @kaznatcheev and
I did say anything the brain does — not anything a pen does. So broad but obviously limited.
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Replying to @o_guest @maria_ndrnh and
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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Replying to @kaznatcheev @maria_ndrnh and
OMG that's actually in my trolling pile not in my helpful criticism pile
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Replying to @o_guest @kaznatcheev and
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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Replying to @o_guest @kaznatcheev and
Which is fine of course. That's what twitter is for.
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