[ExI] The digital nature of brains (was: digital simulations)

[Gordon Swobe]

--- On Sat, 1/23/10, Stathis Papaioannou <stathisp at gmail.com> wrote:

>> At best that simulated analog thermostat can regulate
> simulated temperature in a simulated room that you also
> create on your computer, and then only as a digital
> simulation of an analog thermostat, not as a digital
> simulation of a digital thermostat.
>
> This is true, but you could hook up the simulation to a
> thermometer and it would be as good as a digital thermostat

In that case you have created a real thermostat and my same argument applies: a digital simulation of it will not regulate temperature in a real room.

> or you could just have the simulated thermostat regulate the
> temperature of a simulated room.

In that case you still have only a simulated thermostat, not a real one.


-gts