--- In Wittrs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "jrstern" <jrstern@...> wrote: >> And there, I disagree. A machine is built so that in acting as it >> does by virtue of physical causation, it does what we want it to >> do. I don't see that as any kind of rule following. > I suggest looking more closely at the operation of a computer, > at the hardware level, and at the program level. I'm not sure what point you are trying to make there. The computer is acting as it does by virtue of physical causation. And thus I don't see it as following rules at all, though it is sometimes convenient to use "rule following" as a metaphor when describing the computer. Regards, Neil Group Home Page: http://seanwilson.org/wittgenstein.discussion.html Group Discussion Board: http://seanwilson.org/forum/ Google Archive: http://groups.google.com/group/Wittrs FreeList Archive: //www.freelists.org/archive/wittrs FreeList for September: //www.freelists.org/archive/wittrs/09-2009 FreeList for August: //www.freelists.org/archive/wittrs/08-2009 Group Creator's Page: http://seanwilson.org/ Today's Messages: http://alturl.com/whcf Messages From Last 3 Days: http://alturl.com/d9vz This Week's Messages: http://alturl.com/yeza Yahoo Archive: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Wittrs/
