On Sat, 18 Apr 2020, [email protected] wrote:
Philosophical arguments tend to boil down to disagreements over the meanings of words.
Amen. My take away from studying philosophy is that in order for our language to express all the ideas we need to express, our language must be able to express questions that don't have answers. Much of philosophy is arguing over answers to questions that don't have answers. Like "Is there a god?" This is similar to the fact that general programming languages can express computational procedures that don't halt and hence don't compute anything. And there is no procedure to determine which procedures don't halt. Bill ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/T117bc2d94b89dd03-M33142d72bcdc4224a69d8b85 Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription
