RE: We are no different than computers
May 14, 2015 at 8:39 pm
(This post was last modified: May 14, 2015 at 8:58 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
It is, exactly, yes.
(there -can be- subtle differences, there's room to move in CTM, but that paper expresses the core wonderfully. I noticed that the author likes to propose alternatives to standard models - but notice that the standard models the author challenges are -also- computational models. If I had to really pigeonhole the author, I'd say that it's a "classicist" approach, in that explicit gates are being referenced, rather than the ability of a net to emulate explicit gates and provide the function. I think that this sort of approach offers more demonstrable examples of how a particular function can be achieved withouty reference to some "else" - however, I think that the explicit gate approach opens itself to an equally pressing question in it's attempt to explain features of mind - how could we have gotten explicit gates in there in the first place? How does that work? Eh? Personally, I split the bay- I think that our brains are doing comp, but they are not doing it with explicit gates by design or by nature, the net is emulating the function of explicit gates.)
(there -can be- subtle differences, there's room to move in CTM, but that paper expresses the core wonderfully. I noticed that the author likes to propose alternatives to standard models - but notice that the standard models the author challenges are -also- computational models. If I had to really pigeonhole the author, I'd say that it's a "classicist" approach, in that explicit gates are being referenced, rather than the ability of a net to emulate explicit gates and provide the function. I think that this sort of approach offers more demonstrable examples of how a particular function can be achieved withouty reference to some "else" - however, I think that the explicit gate approach opens itself to an equally pressing question in it's attempt to explain features of mind - how could we have gotten explicit gates in there in the first place? How does that work? Eh? Personally, I split the bay- I think that our brains are doing comp, but they are not doing it with explicit gates by design or by nature, the net is emulating the function of explicit gates.)
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