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 @o_guest and
Seriously, these terms have meanings: Information processing, computation, and cognition. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22210958
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Replying to @WiringTheBrain @kaznatcheev and
... meanings which need to be debated :P which is why cogsci has so many philosophers
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Replying to @maria_ndrnh @kaznatcheev and
I would say meanings that need to be specified when talking about them so you don't end up claiming a pen on a desk is computing
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Replying to @WiringTheBrain @maria_ndrnh and
Isn't that what we were doing? I was try to understand what
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Replying to @kaznatcheev @WiringTheBrain and
Yeah, I'm not sure why you think we were being in any way not like the spirit of that paper? I do respect that definitions are good but I
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do not agree they are needed. A child knows what a cow is without being able to give a formal definition. Thinking the child need to define
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Replying to @o_guest @kaznatcheev and
cow to know what a cow is in my opinion a Socratic fallacy.
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