On 12/27/2025 3:12 AM, John Clark wrote:
On Fri, Dec 26, 2025 at 4:35 PM Brent Meeker <[email protected]>
wrote:
*>>Einstein never used language to explain how he got his
wonderful ideas because he couldn't and he couldn't because
language was not how we got those ideas in the first place. So
there must have been more to Einstein's mind than just the
ability to use language. So his mind was not "/a single
unified system/" as you claimed. *
/>First, I didn't claim that. You're mixing my posts with those
of my son, Barrett.//**/
*Sorry.*
/> And in any case "a single unified system" doesn't necessarily
imply that everything in the system is explicable in language. For
example a computer translator from English to German is a single
unified system...but it can't explain what it's circuitry is. /
*But when you were born you couldn't explain how the neurons in your
brain worked, or even had knowledge that you had a brain, or neurons,
or that they had anything to do with thinking.*
I couldn't walk either. What the hell are you going on about*?**
*
*A LLM can't give a good explanation as to how it works either, nobody
can, so how are you fundamentally different from a computer? *
Your argument is that I and a computer share an inability; therefore I'm
not fundamentally different from a computer??
/> A system may be unified only in terms of having the same ends./
*I'm unclear what you mean by that.*
The railway system is unified by the fact that its purpose is to move
stuff from one place to another. It doesn't follow that it has no
subsystems, like paymaster and signals, that don't move stuff.
Brent
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