[Wittrs] Re: Dennett's paradigm shiftiness--Reply to Stuart
- From: "BruceD" <blroadies@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: wittrsamr@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 27 Feb 2010 21:04:28 -0000
--- In Wittrs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "gabuddabout" <wittrsamr@...> wrote:
> You assimilate parallel processing in your lexicon to physical
processes.
> The claim is vacuous actually but you don't know it.
> To the extent it is about computation it is vacuous.
Please elaborate on the vacuity.
> No one is ever going to find that some process or other is
intrinsically computational.
> And on the other hand, everything under the sun can be given a
computational description.
This sounds right-on to me but I can't say why. Help me get it.
> So one can say that the stomach does information processing.
> The upshot of so saying is that it makes it difficult to distinguish
the truly mental from nonmental.
Because the truly mental is...
I'll stop here though there is much more.
bruce
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