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The iron bar is obviously not a Turing machine and doesn't run programs, that argument is total bonkers, the author assumes it's correct, but it's not correct.
by GoblinSlayer 4y ago
The iron bar is obviously not a Turing machine and doesn't run programs, that argument is total bonkers, the author assumes it's correct, but it's not correct. With the same success you can look at a turned off computer, assign interpretations to its atoms and thus imagine it runs linux, but it's just a fantasy.
- denton-scratch 4y agoI find the iron bar argument singularly unconvincing; but whether or not it simulates some Turing Machine is neither here nor there, because the Turing Machine model is orthogonal to consciousness.