2023-09-20 09:19 UTC
@tyrell_turing@fediscience.org
Your are right in pointing out that there are various physical implementations of systems that you can use to perform (more or less universal) effective computation. Your brain is one of them.
But you're totally wrong in your thinking that this is all that physical systems (incl. your brain) can do. The world is much richer than you think. But you can't see this, because you literally live inside your computational (small-world) model or the large world you actually live in.
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@yoginho@spore.social 2023-09-20 09:24
@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 ...