(February 11, 2015 at 7:48 pm)Rhythm Wrote: Computation requires more than just information and more than just steady states, or changeable states. They must be organized so that a logical function can be leveraged - and that's what states are so useful for -in- computation.I feel like we're circumnavigating the argument here. Are you saying that computers experience qualia?
Quote:I don't know what these words mean.Quote:I would say the same thing about mind itself, so fair enough. However, it seems to suffer to the Heywood Paradigm: We are using definitions about things that are instrinsic to the human experience in making general definitions.a designation as a comp system is exceedignly specific, it includes alot of stuff because theres alot of stuff in the universe - sheer force of demographics - but that doesn;t make it any more or less general.
Okay, look. You have confidently asserted that minds are brain, and that it is the ability to "compute" that we experience as mind. You have rejected counter-examples on the grounds that they represent no true Scotsman. I'm not really arguing against your view at this time, I frankly don't understand what you are talking about.
