RE: Mind is the brain?
April 1, 2016 at 1:00 pm
(This post was last modified: April 1, 2016 at 1:06 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
It appears that our brain -does- do those things. It may not be using comp to do them, but -if- our brain is a computational system, it is a system. Systems can and do have many parts. Are you sure that you've used the term composition fallacy properly?
Benny, a computer, is a computer, if it fits the definition of a computer (as opposed to the definition of a switch, or a calculator, or a comparator). Doesn't have anything to do with whether or not it has an operator, or whether that operator is a human being, and theres no requirement in either case, in any case. Amusingly, the term itself was borrowed from math (pre-computers)...they called the person solving the problem the computer. OFC there's a bunch of physics going on, again..that's a "not even wrong" proposition...but it's as insufficient now as it was before. If a bunch of phyiscs going on was -all- that was required for a computer we'd never have had the need to invent them. We could ask the air to do our homework.
I already told you what data was. You're unsatisifed...you being unsatisfied does not mean that something didn't happen.
Here's something to mull over. If the sum total of your objection is to turn everything into a computer (to remove the identity of the descriptors referent)...and you feel that everything has "spark of mind"....are you actually objecting to comp mind, or agreeing with it?
Benny, a computer, is a computer, if it fits the definition of a computer (as opposed to the definition of a switch, or a calculator, or a comparator). Doesn't have anything to do with whether or not it has an operator, or whether that operator is a human being, and theres no requirement in either case, in any case. Amusingly, the term itself was borrowed from math (pre-computers)...they called the person solving the problem the computer. OFC there's a bunch of physics going on, again..that's a "not even wrong" proposition...but it's as insufficient now as it was before. If a bunch of phyiscs going on was -all- that was required for a computer we'd never have had the need to invent them. We could ask the air to do our homework.
I already told you what data was. You're unsatisifed...you being unsatisfied does not mean that something didn't happen.
Here's something to mull over. If the sum total of your objection is to turn everything into a computer (to remove the identity of the descriptors referent)...and you feel that everything has "spark of mind"....are you actually objecting to comp mind, or agreeing with it?
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