Jason,
Nice, you are anticipatiing on MGA 2. So if you don't mind I will "answer" your post in MGA 2, or in comments you will perhaps make afterward. ... asap. Bruno Le 20-nov.-08, à 21:27, Jason Resch a écrit : > > > On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 12:03 PM, Bruno Marchal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> >> >> >>> The state machine that would represent her in the case of injection >>> of random noise is a different state machine that would represent >>> her normally functioning brain. >> >> >> Absolutely so. >> >> > > Bruno, > > What about the state machine that included the injection of "lucky" > noise from an outside source vs. one in which all information was > derived internally from the operation of the state machine itself? > Would those two differently defined machines not differ and compute > something different? Even though the computations are identical the > information that is being computed comes from different sources and so > carries with it a different "connotation". Though the bits injected > are identical, they inherently imply a different meaning because the > state machine in the case of injection has a different structure than > that of her normally operating brain. I believe the brain can be > abstracted as a computer/information processing system, but it is not > simply the computations and the inputs into the logic gates at each > step that are important, but also the source of the input bits, > otherwise the computation isn't the same. > > Jason > > > > http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
