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How do you then account for the fact that, say, an industrial robot can construct a car? Clearly the encoding is not entirely arbitrary then, at least when we
by simiones 4y ago
How do you then account for the fact that, say, an industrial robot can construct a car?
Clearly the encoding is not entirely arbitrary then, at least when we are seeking to actually embody the computer in the real world. Also, the behavior of such an embodied computer is independent of any observer. The industrial robot creates the same metal whether some human interprets that as a car or some alien sees it as a work of art.
- hsn915 4y agoThe same way I account for the fact that people can use different languages to communicate and cooperate to build things, including cars. Language is arbitrary in the same way, because it is basically just a way of encoding information. There's nothing essential about words that give them their meanings.