Colin Hales wrote:
> Computationalism is FALSE in the sense that it cannot be used to construct a scientist.
> A scientist deals with the UNKNOWN.
> If you could compute a scientist you would already know everything! Science would be impossible.
> So you can 'compute/simulate' a scientist, but if you could the science must already have been done...
Why would you say that? Computer simulations can certainly produce results you didn't already know about, just look at genetic algorithms.
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Received on Mon Sep 01 2008 - 22:18:52 PDT