On Sat, Jul 6, 2013 Roger Clough 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 computatio
Time: 2013-07-08, 18:44:36
Subject: Re: computationalism as a form of magic
>From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gottfried_Wilhelm_Leibniz
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>Leibniz may have been the first computer scientist and information theorist.
>[65]
>Early
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On 09 Jul 2013, at 00:44, Jason Resch wrote:
From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gottfried_Wilhelm_Leibniz
Computation[edit]
Leibniz may have been the first computer scientist and information
theorist.[65] Early in life, he documented the binary numeral system
(base 2), then revisited that
oving by gravity
with shift registers, voltage gradients, and pulses of electrons, but
otherwise they run roughly as Leibniz envisioned in 1679.
On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 11:15 PM, Roger Clough wrote:
> Dear Prof. Tegmark,
>
> I have been trying to think of a way to make computationalism wo
Dear Prof. Tegmark,
I have been trying to think of a way to make computationalism work
but I can see no force that numbers might have on the physical world
that might empower them.
Instead I see computationalism as a form of magic. Serious magic if you will,
but still magic, magic in the sense
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