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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 01/05/2023 04:37, Jason Resch asked:<br>
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<div dir="auto">Given their conflicting answers, how about we
agree for a time (at least in this thread) to only use rational
thought and argument (rather than appealing to the authority of
some humans or some language models)?</div>
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<div dir="auto">What then is your rational argument for why brains
can have true understanding and consciousness but no digital
computer ever could?</div>
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Oh!, oh!, Me!, Me! I know this!:<br>
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"Because".<br>
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Did I get it right?<br>
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I mean, it's obvious, innit? computers have just got numbers and
electrons and logic gates and all that, you know, machiney stuff.
Not alive. Mechanical.<br>
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But humans have got , er, magic? OK, that's not a good answer, is
it? Squishy stuff, that's <i>alive!</i> <font size="1">(yeah, it's
magic really)</font><br>
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Ben<br>
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