nazgulnarsil comments on Spoiled Discussion of Permutation City, A Fire Upon The Deep, and Eliezer's Mega Crossover - Less Wrong

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Comment author: nazgulnarsil 20 February 2011 05:35:00AM 0 points [-]

searle is an idiot, the nebulous "understanding" he talks about in the original paper is obviously informationally contained in the algorithm. the degree to which someone believes that "understanding" can't be contained in an algorithm is the degree to which they believe in dualism. just because executing an algorithm from the inside feels like something we label understanding doesn't make it magic.