[lit-ideas] Re: What is information? (third try)
- From: "Peter D. Junger" <junger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 19:48:41 -0400
Robert Paul writes:
: I give up. I just give up. It's the rain. It's the coming world crisis. It's
: that new stuff I'm taking for my sinuses. It's the Pope.
:
: Here's what I wanted to say.
:
: Though it's rank anthropomorphism to say that a computer is 'carrying out
: instructions' (or thinking to itself), the implausibility of this doesn't
: entail that we CANNOT read back from what the computer is doing to something
: that can be symbolized.
Agreed.
--
Peter D. Junger--Case Western Reserve University Law School--Cleveland, OH
EMAIL: junger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx URL: http://samsara.law.cwru.edu
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