Re: memetics-digest V1 #1294

From: Keith Henson (hkhenson@rogers.com)
Date: Wed 26 Feb 2003 - 05:04:37 GMT

  • Next message: Keith Henson: "Re: memetics-digest V1 #1294"

    At 12:13 AM 24/02/03 -0500, you wrote:

    >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.

    Between the dawn of writing and the invention of the printing press, how were books copied and who did it?

    >>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.

    I was going to use the example that we all learn the same arithmetic, but your counter example kind of blows that away.

    Keith Henson

    >- Wade
    >
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