On Wed, Dec 20, 2017 at 12:49:16PM -0800, Brent Meeker wrote: > I don't know why he > insists on calling computationalism "mechanist" since it has nothing to do > with "mechanisms" or "mechanical".
Mechanist just means related to machines. The most developed, complete theory we have of machines is that of the Turing machine, and with the CT thesis, universal Turing machines. So Mechanism does include Computationalism, but potentially much more, since hypercomputers (capable of much more than a Turing machine) are conceivable, albeit strangely missing from our reality. If you subscribe to Deutsch's Turing tropic principle, then mechanism = computationalism. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Senior Research Fellow [email protected] Economics, Kingston University http://www.hpcoders.com.au ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
