2023-09-18 08:24 UTC
@kendmiller@qoto.org
Basically, you can have two attitudes towards computation:
(1) You can use computational models as tools to understand the world, with all the limitations of the approach that implies.
(2) You can come to live in your computational model and mistake it for the world. That's what computationalism is. That's why I call it deluded. It mistakes the map for the territory. It commits what is called the equivalence fallacy.
This immediately & radically restricts the questions ...
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@yoginho@spore.social 2023-09-18 08:25
@kendmiller@qoto.org ... you can ask, and the explanations you consider scientific. Our physical theories become complete descriptions of the world. You become trapped in your small world. That's why computationalists can't even see the point of the argument I'm trying to have with them. The world is large and open-ended, but you can only get a shallow understanding of why that is if you live within your limited model.