On Sat, Jul 6, 2013 Roger Clough <[email protected]> wrote: > I see computationalism as a form of magic. >
The only difference is that one works and the other doesn't. Extispicy (using animal entrails to predict the future) makes use of magic and it doesn't work at all; Newton used computation to predict the future position of planets and it worked beautifully, and that gives us some reason to believe that computation may be a better tool in figuring out how the world works than magic, although I did think Harry Potter was fun. John K Clark -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
