/sci/ - Science & Math

>>3854950

>>3603806

>I don't mean that reduction to physics is wrong, but you don't assume that just because your CPU can run only some simple instructions, it cannot run complex operating systems and software. Some such software could even be a mind someday.

>I should also point this out. Peano Arithmetic cannot prove its own consistency, but it could encode in itself computational processes which contain a machine encoding some axioms (such as transfinite induction) which prove systems stronger than itself and even itself consistent. Of course Peano Arithmetic understands it not, but the system WITHIN Peano Arithmetic 'understands'. The neurons don't understand the mind, but the mind understands. The transistors that make the CPU don't understand the OS (or software or mind or whatever), but the software does....
Such is the downfall of Searle's Chinese room.

Well done.

>>3536264

>>3437885

>Protip: not everyone welcomes change.

>>3312767

>The mental realm exists as a thing separate from the physical, only in so far as d0rfs exist as a thing separate from a computer. Meaning, the mental realm is an abstraction used to describe the actions of a mind, within the context of a brain.

>>3282445

>>3274060
>>3274059

>>2858131

This, this, this, this, this, and a thousand times this.