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I was thinking of simple arithmetic like addition and simple logical operations like “and” and “or” I was illustrating the existence of these things - like PG

I was thinking of simple arithmetic like addition and simple logical operations like “and” and “or” I was illustrating the existence of these things - like PG was doing in the article - not attempting to define them

TuringTest 4y ago
Yes, but these things exist because our brains reason this way, not because they are constants of nature. Other intelligent beings could have different non-symbolic ways of gathering and processing information about nature, such as evolving cellular automata adequate to represent and solve problems.