(April 9, 2015 at 7:55 pm)Rhythm Wrote:Quote:Input and output alone insufficiently accounts for the distinguishing properties of mind.-it may, but not based upon your comment, nor has anyone proposed that mind is input and output alone. Your example would not be what I'd call computation - unless we're talking a digital camera ( a comp system)..then the input and output is "about" whatever format the camera is programmed for-to the camera (and further, this is "about" the states of a machine), and to us it's "about" a mountain. Translation.
An abacus is a manually operated computation device. The beads have no meaning. They are just beads. A human must assign value to the beads.
