[ExI] The digital nature of brains.

Gordon Swobe gts_2000 at yahoo.com
Thu Jan 28 20:26:22 UTC 2010


--- On Wed, 1/27/10, John Clark <jonkc at bellsouth.net> wrote:

> If syntax is not only insufficient for meaning
> but it's not even part of meaning then what good is it?

Programs use syntactic rules to manipulate symbols. They look at the forms of symbols, not at their meanings.

Let X = some symbol
Let Y = the meaning of that symbol

Computers can do no more than this sort of operation:

'If symbol X looks like [some form] then do [some operation] on X.'

Computers will keep getting better at this but they will never know Y. 

-gts





      



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