Re: memetics-digest V1 #1294

From: Scott Chase (ecphoric@hotmail.com)
Date: Wed 26 Feb 2003 - 03:43:56 GMT

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    >From: "Wade T. Smith" <wade.t.smith@verizon.net>
    >Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
    >To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
    >Subject: Re: memetics-digest V1 #1294
    >Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 00:13:00 -0500
    >
    >
    >On Saturday, February 22, 2003, at 08:03 AM, memetics-digest wrote:
    >
    >>Do you have any doubt that one of the things humans do is copy
    >>information?
    >
    >Yes.
    >
    >>Do you have any doubt that one of the things computers do is copy
    >>information?
    >
    >No.
    >
    >>For *this function* (at least) a "black box" view of human and computers
    >>is
    >>similar.
    >
    >A + B = C, if and only if both are true.
    >
    >There is no indication that the information in my head is the same as the
    >information in your head, and certainly there is no proof that the
    >information in either of our heads is a _copy_ of something in someone
    >else's.
    >
    >The black box comparison is not valid.
    >
    >
    Wade pretty much demolishes the internalist stance with his wrecking ball.

    How well would the externalist stance stand?

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