Re: [Wittrs] Wittgenstein on Machines and Thinking
- From: "Cayuse" <z.z7@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <wittrs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2011 22:30:26 +0100
Sean Wilson wrote:
> Stuart writes: "Say a machine were built to speak to us in a
> thoughtful and autonomous way. (By "autonomous" I mean without being
> pre-programmed to give certain answers to certain questions under
> certain conditions.)"
>
> If such a thing were built, we might not call it a "machine."
Or we might call entire organisms "machines" in just the same way we
talk about the "machinery" of the cell, or the "machinery" of the organ.
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