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
Is Windows 95 running in a web browser still Windows 95? The physical effects on the processor's atoms do not directly correspond after all.
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Replying to @botminds @kaznatcheev and
All the information one can get from some particular experiment on magnets can be gotten just as well via a quantum computer simulation
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Replying to @botminds @kaznatcheev and
The information is more important than the atoms.
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Replying to @botminds @kaznatcheev and
The principle of multiple realisability is glorious.
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have no idea what this means, but it sounds 'glorious'!
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Replying to @aeryn_thrace @botminds and
Haha. It's basically that different hardware can support the same software. Or that a computer can be made of wood and still work.
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yeah, ok, now its all coming back to me. My second B.A. was phil of cog sci. Hadn't thought about that set of ideas in a looong time.
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