2023-09-18 08:22 UTC
@kendmiller@qoto.org
... no closure to physics (it remains forever incomplete) & is therefore not formalizable in a way the term "computation" suggests.
This is why I find any broad & vague application of the term misleading & restricting. By considering physics as computation, you limit yourself to the syntactic, symbolic realm (a small world where everything is well-defined), but the world we actually live in is full of ill-defined problems, ambiguity, & relevant cues are hard to come by.
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@yoginho@spore.social 2023-09-18 08:24
@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 ...