Computers are Too Accurate to Think
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Digital Computing is Too Accurate
Some people claim that the brain not only evolved, but encorporates evolution in its very
design. Gerald Edelman of the Neuroscience Institute states that it would be hard to conceive
of evolution being the product of a Turing Machine. When you think about it, growing nerves
in a brain never yields exactly the same pattern, whereas any variation on a computer chip and
the chip is rejected as defective. Computer programs run on computer hardware and any
variation of results, given the same input, results in everything coming to a halt while "things
get fixed." Whereas no two philosophers agree precisely on all subjects, computers must
agree or one of them is deemed to be defective.
A human is deemed "reliable" if she achieves her goal. A computer is deemed reliable if it is
accurate and repeatable.
Type 4 life is created by the selection of the results of random variation of an earlier design.
Type 5 life is created by design. Type 4 is semantic, while type 5 is syntatic. At this point, type
4 is creative and type 5 life is non-creative, by nature. Can this be reversed or is it inherent in
devices digital?
Problems Index
Some people claim that the brain not only evolved, but encorporates evolution in its very
design. Gerald Edelman of the Neuroscience Institute states that it would be hard to conceive
of evolution being the product of a Turing Machine. When you think about it, growing nerves
in a brain never yields exactly the same pattern, whereas any variation on a computer chip and
the chip is rejected as defective. Computer programs run on computer hardware and any
variation of results, given the same input, results in everything coming to a halt while "things
get fixed." Whereas no two philosophers agree precisely on all subjects, computers must
agree or one of them is deemed to be defective.
A human is deemed "reliable" if she achieves her goal. A computer is deemed reliable if it is
accurate and repeatable.
Type 4 life is created by the selection of the results of random variation of an earlier design.
Type 5 life is created by design. Type 4 is semantic, while type 5 is syntatic. At this point, type
4 is creative and type 5 life is non-creative, by nature. Can this be reversed or is it inherent in
devices digital?
Problems Index