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Fair enough. I'm sure you'll be brimming with example of things it does other than process information (ie. computes)
One will do just fine.
The brain is the home of the master sex hormone regulator, that tells the body to mature, as well as doing a host of other things.
I'm fairly sure that the determined believer can figure out a way to reduce anything in the universe to "processing information", right up to and including life itself, which appears to be the level of consideration with which you've dismissed everything from the millions of permutations of neurotransmitter and hormonal communications, to DNA expression itself.
In my opinion, it's a real stretch to reduce cell functionality and DNA expression to "a computer", but if that's the basic unit you believe all information processing reduces to, I have no more reason to dissuade you than to try to dissuade a Mormon from wearing magic underwear.
You're talking about how it does what it does. That's your field. My field is information processing. I'm interested in what it is that comes out of all that stuff. It's signals. It's information. It changes and reads and stores and spits out signal. I don't particularly know or even care much how it does all that, aside from a vague curiosity. I know it's spectacular, I know it's all of those things, some weird kind of high frequency harmonic mexican waves flying back and forth, right down to tiny little bits of tubing, growing about all over the place. I dig it but the part of my attention which I devote to in depth study is always the signals themselves. The voltages or chemicals or whatever it is results in signals. These signals speak their own kind of emergent language. Call it the mind, call it consciousness, it's a program. Signals.
Hokay then. By that definition, everything is computers.
Everything everywhere is exactly the same. It's computers all the way down.
But what if that's EXACTLY how the universe functions. I mean just what if the signals and 'static' apparent in the world we have learned to see in the last couple centuries, the intergalactic and subatomic alike, are all non random calculations going on.
The Singularity already happened and there was a loud bang as It got going.
Jeb Bush is hotly rumoured to be running.
LEL
http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2015/01/28/gay-couple-buy-jebbushforpresident-com-and-wont-give-it-up/
Duluth, Minnesota.
Hello, Poptard.
Duluth, Minnesota.
Hello, Poptard.
God, no wonder he's so bored.
Palin vs Clinton vs Warren deathmatch.
Fair enough. I'm sure you'll be brimming with example of things it does other than process information (ie. computes)
One will do just fine.
The brain is the home of the master sex hormone regulator, that tells the body to mature, as well as doing a host of other things.
I'm fairly sure that the determined believer can figure out a way to reduce anything in the universe to "processing information", right up to and including life itself, which appears to be the level of consideration with which you've dismissed everything from the millions of permutations of neurotransmitter and hormonal communications, to DNA expression itself.
In my opinion, it's a real stretch to reduce cell functionality and DNA expression to "a computer", but if that's the basic unit you believe all information processing reduces to, I have no more reason to dissuade you than to try to dissuade a Mormon from wearing magic underwear.
You're talking about how it does what it does. That's your field. My field is information processing. I'm interested in what it is that comes out of all that stuff. It's signals. It's information. It changes and reads and stores and spits out signal. I don't particularly know or even care much how it does all that, aside from a vague curiosity. I know it's spectacular, I know it's all of those things, some weird kind of high frequency harmonic mexican waves flying back and forth, right down to tiny little bits of tubing, growing about all over the place. I dig it but the part of my attention which I devote to in depth study is always the signals themselves. The voltages or chemicals or whatever it is results in signals. These signals speak their own kind of emergent language. Call it the mind, call it consciousness, it's a program. Signals.
Hokay then. By that definition, everything is computers.
Everything everywhere is exactly the same. It's computers all the way down.
Sounds like... AMERICA.
