On 5/10/2019 3:14 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote:
On 6 May 2019, at 10:25, [email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]> wrote:
On Sunday, May 5, 2019 at 6:55:37 PM UTC-5, Jason wrote:
When I follow a recipe (a program) to make a meal, I mix the
identified ingredients in the specified order and cook according to
the specified times.
The meal is tasty (hopefully). Entering the recipe into a computer
(even if there was some sort of recipe interpreter) does not result
in a tasty meal.
That is straw man. A recipe is not an algorithm, even is sometimes it
is used as a pedagogical tool to explain what is an algorithm.
To refute mechanism, you need to simulate both the recipe, the food
and the taster.
And the kitchen.
Brent
If there is no magical infinities playing a role in the brain (the
mechanist assumption) then the taster will behave like: “Hmm… good,
but I would add some salt to make it more tasty”. That does not prove
that mechanism is true (the digital taster might be a zombie), but
this does refute your argument against Mechanism and Church’s thesis.
Bruno
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