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Does it make sense for an automaton to say "I will search for truth. I am searching for truth. I have found truth." when that automaton has been preprogrammed t

• wruza 6y ago
  That boils down to the question “can deterministic system contain inner truths?”. While I can’t really answer that now, imagine a deterministic system that has some truth in it that may be observed from outside (by e.g. us, its creators). Then claiming that there is no sense in automaton reasoning is equivalent to claiming that this system doesn’t have an attractor for that. But if there is such attractor, then we may watch this automaton in “realtime” looking for truth (being catched by an attractor), move to it (along its field), and then state that it found it (by observing a fixed point). Or it could spiral into “truth point” never reaching it, like we usually do. Iow, systems are not required to have truths or elements that are pre-aimed to balance themselves along these truths, but our world doesn’t have to be like that (unless proven otherwise).