[lbo-talk] RE: AI/Man a Machine?

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Why isn't the brain a 
> machine anyhow? Because it doesn't have any
> discernable control panel?
> 
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> The evidence that the brain is a machine is what
> exactly?
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> 
> To preempt the obvious retort, let me add that
> saying that the brain is a 
> physical object that follows natural laws doesn't
> cut it. If just that made 
> something a "machine," then oceans and nebulae and
> rocks would be machines.

Isn't the idea behind AI that the brian is a computer;
it transforms sensory input into behavioral output.
And surely that is true whatever else it does! It
doesn't matter whether whatever does this is
"physical," although surely the brain is physical, but
oceans and nebulae do not perceive, sense, feel, and
respond to what they experience. If that means the
brain, or the mind is a machine, well, it's a sort of
computing machine. That's the thought, anyway. jks

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