@tyrell_turing@fediscience.org
2023-09-14 14:08 UTC
@yoginho@spore.social
I don't really want to engage in an extended debate here, but I will just note this:
Turing and others very much so connected humans being able to do some calculation by rote to the ability to create a mechanical device to do that function.
So, there was always a direct connection to physics/mechanics, because the implication was always that if an effective method existed, then a physical/mechanical system could in principle implement the function for us.
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@yoginho@spore.social 2023-09-14 15:09
@tyrell_turing@fediscience.org Nobody doubts that you can mechanicize rote human behavior. In fact, that's exactly the point of a universal Turing machine. It is designed to implement any process that can be machanicized that way. How you get from that to "the brain or the world are a computer/mechanism" is mysterious to me. And it was to Turing and Church who always resisted such an unwarranted extrapolation. No extended discussion needed, really. There is simply nothing that supports your worldview...