[ExI] digital simulations, descriptions and copies

Gordon Swobe gts_2000 at yahoo.com
Thu Jan 21 12:18:55 UTC 2010


--- On Wed, 1/20/10, Stefano Vaj <stefano.vaj at gmail.com> wrote:

>> The computationalist theory of mind, in which the
>> brain is seen as a digital computer running software, does
>> not explain how people can understand their own words.
> 
> The computationalist theory of PCs, in which digital
> computers are seen as, well, digital computers, does not 
> explain how PCs can "understand" their own instructions either.

Right, and strictly speaking they don't.

-gts




      



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