[ExI] Wrestling with Embodiment

[Stefano Vaj]

On 28 January 2012 15:10, Natasha Vita-More <natasha at natasha.cc> wrote:

> "Another issue is whether life (or, for that matter, everything) is
> computation.
>
> Marguis seemed to think it is, as did La Mettrie (1747), Fedorov
> (1828-1903), Finot (1856-1922).
>

Yes, this goes back after a fashion more than we usually think,

My most immediate references were in fact Wolfran and Seth Lloyd, but I
think that Turing himself philosophised on the subject, or did he?

-- 
Stefano Vaj
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.extropy.org/pipermail/extropy-chat/attachments/20120128/9a9421b6/attachment.html>