Re: [Wittrs] Wittgenstein on Machines and Thinking
- From: "SWM" <swmirsky@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: Wittgenstein's Aftermath <wittrs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2011 22:41:17 -0000
--- In Wittrs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Cayuse" <z.z7@...> wrote:
>
> 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.
>
Yes.
SWM
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