Re: Bruno's argument

From: Bruno Marchal <marchal.domain.name.hidden>
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2006 16:48:30 +0200

Le 28-juil.-06, à 02:52, John M a écrit :

> Then again is the 'as - if' really a computation as in our today's
> vocabulary? Or, if you insist (and Bruno as well, that it IS) is it
> conceivable as our digital process, that embryonic first approach, or
> we
> may hope to understand later on a higher level (I have no better word
> for
> it): the analog computation of qualia and meaning? Certainly not the
> Turing
> or Church ways and not on Intel etc. processors.


What makes you so sure? Sometimes you talk like if you were sure we are
not digital machine.
Is that not a human prejudice?
At least I can explain why If we are machine, we cannot *know* it (just
bet on it). There is mathematical description of machine's prejudices.

Bruno


http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/


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