2023-09-20 09:24 UTC
@tyrell_turing@fediscience.org
So this is *not* "just semantics." Or better: semantics matter a lot in the large world we live in.
Your Wittgensteinian definition of the meaning of a term is such a cop-out. "We use the term like this, so that's what it is."
Instead, it seems more useful to me to ask, how does the use of a term reflect on the problems we want to solve with it?
"Computation" really isn't helpful in this sense, if you want to understand those aspects of the brain which are organizational ...
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@yoginho@spore.social 2023-09-20 09:28
@tyrell_turing@fediscience.org ...rather than those connected to the subset of brain processes concerned with actual information processing. In brief, your term "computation" *is* a metaphor & a pretty bad one, limiting you to only a sliver of the world when you should look at a bigger picture. Your paper fails to address this problem, bcs it fundamentally fails to question its own assumptions, while dismissing those of others as not real. Well, they *are* real. Just not in your small world. Consider that?