But is it true that different brains can implement the same algorithm? It
seems it
is only true because we abstract a certain algorithm from it's various
representation, e.g. as written on paper. Every actual realization, in
brains or
computer or on paper is actually slightly different at a
Le 05-sept.-06, à 20:49, 1Z a écrit :
That is the answer Stathis wants, but it doesn't work. Whether a
computation
is self-interpreting or not is itself a matter of interpretation, given
his premises.
He seems to need some sort of interpretation-independently
self-interpreting system
to
Stathis Papaioannou wrote:
Brent meeker writes:
Let's not try to define consciousness at all, but agree that we know what it
is
from personal experience. Computationalism is the theory that consciousness
arises
as a result of computer activity: that our brains are just complex
computers,
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