On 16 Jan 2014, at 04:02, Colin Geoffrey Hales wrote:
http://www.edge.org/response-detail/25377
Neil Gershenfeld
Physicist, Director, MIT's Center for Bits and Atoms; Author, FAB
Totally agree: He blames Turing and von Neumann
So do I.
He assumes both comp and weak materialism. In fact some digital
physics. This has been shown many time here to not work at all. I can
repeat the argument, but it is very easy from the UDA.
Physicalism is ready for retirement, if comp is true.
We stopped doing real empirical work on the inorganic brain 60 years
ago. We failed for 60 years to make an inorganic brain.
Computer “Science” was never and never will be an empirical science
at all. It is 100% the experimental exploration of theoretical
models .... and has been generationally systemically confused with
empirical science.
I think on the contrary that computer science gives a precise criteria
how to use the empirical experimentation to refute precise theory of
the mind.
You assume that an inorganic brain might one day function, but that
would mean that comp, or string AI, is possible, and then I don't see
how you could avoid the consequences.
Party’s over.
You talk here a bit like Edgar or other "knower of the Truth".
We are just searching, using theories (= hypothesis), as only them put
light on how to interpret the experimental data.
Bruno
Cheers
Colin
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