2023-09-14 06:15 UTC
@tyrell_turing@fediscience.org
Ultimately, it is computationalism (and its other reductionist-mechanistic relatives) that are causing our delusion that we can control and manipulate a predictable world.
I may sound a little hyperbolic, but the kind of worldview you are propagating here is likely to kill us all, unless we learn to realize the world for what it is, large, ill-defined, fundamentally unpredictable & beyond our grasp.
Computationalism is delusion of grandeur. The ultimate human foolishness.
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@yoginho@spore.social 2023-09-14 06:22
@tyrell_turing@fediscience.org P.S. I find it really difficult to discuss this with computationalists. Since you live inside your model, and think there is nothing outside (see also your Bengio quote), you are completely blind to what is obviously quite a different reality your live in. Computationalism is a comforting illusion for those who like their world tidy & predictable. They tend to fiercely refuse to embrace the fact that there is so much beyond mechanism in the world.