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"The idea that you cannot make tea from water alone requires accepting on faith that brewing tea is magic." No, not necessarily. It just means that water/compu
by V-2 4y ago
"The idea that you cannot make tea from water alone requires accepting on faith that brewing tea is magic."
No, not necessarily. It just means that water/computation is not the only ingredient you need.
- doliveira 4y agoAnd what is this other ingredient if it's not something physical?
- V-2 4y agoIt could well be something physical, but going beyond mere computationality. If I knew what it was, I'd be waiting for my Nobel prize now :) It's kind of as Newton's physics was missing the secret ingredient of special relativity. It was still physical, not magical, but not discovered yet.
- doliveira 4y agoYou seem to be arguing for conscience as the fifth force of nature, or something quite close to it. That's basically magic.
- V-2 4y agoOnly in the same sense as dark matter or string theory are "basically magic". It is naive to assume we've already discovered all properties of matter and energy and are now only refining our understanding of those.