small micro-accumulation will occur in the darndest of places. if a chamber is sealed, bugs and critters are sure to get n there, and if some mice bring in a bunch of twigs and gum up the works -- and you have insects with a few centuries of grit in the device -- does it run as smoothly? the crawlspace under my house has loads of activity from little scurrying creatures -- anything that relies on exact tolerances for anything is sure to be gummed up -- its only a mattter of time.:>
yeah, but this clock will be obsoleted by the bush administration next spring -- when they change the rules for daylight savings time -- because america will not allow terrorist daylight savers to intimidate our country.;->
what is the current situation with instant messaging is what was the case with email back in 1993-1995.
namely -- compuserve had their email, and didn't talk with anyone else. genie had their email, and didn't talk with anyone else. aol had their email, and didn't talk with anyone else.
it was often the case that you would have to have accounts on three different systems (as well as a host of bbs') just to get email to someone -- depending on which incompatible system they were on. ('can't get there from here' was often the case!)
then slowly, they started offering a new service 'internet gateway', which allowed you to send email not only to their own internal service, but to a universal 'internet' email address -- this became a tidal wave, and now there's nothing but internet email addresses.
open standards and protocols are necessary for a free internet.
over the 2004 christmas holidays, i was over at my friend's with my 3Gen iPod (15gig), who has a small kid (4 years old?). had the 'iskin' rubber protection off, and the kid was curious, and dropped it onto the wood floor while it was playing , and it just kept on going.
now, it probably cached the song, and the hard drive could've been idle, but still -- after almost a year, the thing is still working perfectly, the hard drive heads didn't get progressively worse from that point or anything.
i guess they expect most people will connect through highspeed or wireless, because they put in the video camera, and pulled out the modem (its now an external usb adaptor cable).
if your 'commute is not too long' -- then why not consider using a bike to get to work for a year (or part of a year, if the winter puts you off)? -- biking makes you feel great. you don't need to pay for a gym, and if your commute is less than 20 minutes by bike (10kms), its a great way to get to work refreshed and feeling alive.:-}
best regards, john penner (toronto bike commuter - 5yrs)
> It will also 'search computers for music > and movies and remove any illegal copies'
so how does it know the difference between an mp3 file i've ripped from my CD collection (of 700 CDs) to use on my ipod, or if it comes from a p2p download!?!?
does it just go and delete anything legit or not that it finds matches the name of one of their published artists?
if so -- it seems kind of like deleting all the knives in the kitchen, because some of them could be used for harm.
it seems to me that apple doesn't think in terms of the hardware - software dichotomy where what goes on the screen has nothing to do with what is going on in the hardware -- with apple, the form and function become synonymous. the scroll wheel becomes 'part of' what you see going on with the menu structure on the screen, and it happens so that what you see on the screen is visually continuous from the hardwired controls.
this seamlessness of form and function works really well with a WHITE ipod using a WHITE UI background colour -- but when you look at the BLACK nano, it still uses a white UI -- which breaks the total 'blackness' in a way which doesn't occur with the white ipod (which has white case AND white UI).
it seems that to be consistent, they should also be able to set the screen's UI colours such. that way, the white ipod uses a white bkgnd with black text, and the black nano uses a black bkgnd with white text -- then the screen UI for both versions would remain continuous with the outer form-factor.
probably the easiest form of implementation for this would be in the setttings, to offer a selection of UI colour -- to match the colour of UI to the colour of the case -- e.g. you could have a red and black UI for the U2 ipod.
read something interesting the other day -- before someone arbitrarily picked TIME as the fourth dimension, many scientists also considered HEAT as the fourth dimension. j.
IQ is only part of the picture. some people consider 'EQ' (emotional intelligence) to be a greater predictor of 'success in the real world'. regards, j.
At the present time the Earth is going through its Fourth Round, and this is the mineral. During this time it is the task of mankind to work upon the mineral kingdom... We are now in the midst of this activity, and in the course of the next epochs, THE EARTH WILL HAVE TO BECOME COMPLETELY TRANSFORMED, SO THAT EVENTUALLY THERE WILL BE NO SINGLE ATOM ON THE EARTH THAT HAS NOT BEEN WORKED ON BY MAN. In earlier times these atoms became more and more solidified; now however they are becoming increasingly separated. Radio-activity did not exist in earlier times and could not therefore be discovered. It has only existed for a few thousand years, because now the atoms split up more and more.
sorry, can't find it now, but i remember reading an interview with steve jobs a couple years ago, and he said something to the effect of what this guy is saying -- that certain people are able to produce not just an equivalent amount of labour of another programmer, but really good talented individuals can replace 20:1 or 40:1 in what they can accomplish.
then when he built the programming team at NeXT (the parent of OSX), he leveraged this fact to get a small group of the best able minds to produce what a much larger group of less talented people could not accomplish.
if anyone has a reference to that interview, it'd be greatly appreciated...
in the pre-OSX days, arlo was known by millions of macintosh users for making 'Kaleidoscope' - it basically let users of above-average graphic skill to theme the entire mac OS interface down to the pixel without a lot of programming knowledge. this was way ahead of anything that was done in windows or linux. millions of mac users had custom UIs because of this man.
but such a theme manager was closely tied with OS9, and so when time came time for OSX, arlo started an even more clever hack -- konfabulator.
now this was already very close to what apple always had with desk accessories, but it was javascriptable (whereas DAs required a separate development environment to compile); they were internet enabled (desk accessories only lived in the time before the internet); and they also had a really nice photoshop-able front end (DAs couldn't utilize quickdraw as nicely as OSX's incredible quartz graphics); and because CPUs were finally fast enough, you could run them interpreted instead of compiled.
these factors made konfabulator really nifty for quick, beautiful, useful little utilities. but they fell too closely to apple's own revival of the desk accessory concept, and so it looked like all of arlo's hard work had all the chance of a netscape against a bundled browser.
so now yahoo buys them up, they all still got jobs, and it opens up possiblities for them better than they ever had before -- this is a good fate for these amazing mac developers. they have long been a credit to the mac community. its great to see that they've come across good fortune at this time. congratulations arlo & team!! we love ya! j.
Trout with three chromosome sets grew faster than fish with two sets, so the industry tries to breed fish with three sets for meat production. RAINBOW TROUT WITH THREE SETS OF CHROMOSOMES GROW FASTER BECAUSE THEY ARE UNABLE TO REPRODUCE. The energy from the food they eat is shifted from reproduction to growth.
with what was said in 1924...
--| What Steiner Said About Salmon in 1924 |---
Salmon... have a special organization. They must live in the sea to develop proper muscles. They need earth influences to feed properly and develop muscles. Those earth influences are mainly in the salt in the sea. Salmon must live in the salt of the sea in order to develop strong muscles. But they cannot reproduce if they live in the sea, because they are made in such a way that the sea water closes them off completely from the universe. Salmon would have died out long ago if they had to reproduce in the sea. They are the exception. As they gain their strength in the sea -- where they develop muscle -- they are in the first place fairly blind, and in the second place are unable to reproduce. Their reproductive organs and their sense organs grow weak, they are dull. But salmon grow big in the sea. Now to prevent the salmon from dying out -- we can see this by considering the salmon in the North Sea and over in the Atlantic -- salmon migrate up the Rhine year after year. This is why they are called Rhine salmon. But the Rhine makes salmon lean; they lose their muscles. The size to which they have grown in the salty sea is lost in the Rhine. The salmon get really slender; they lose their muscles. Their sense organs and above all their reproductive organs, male and female, develop to an enourmous degree, and the salmon are able to reproduce in the Rhine. The salmon must thus migrate from the salty sea to the freshwater Rhine every year in order to reproduce. They have to grow lean, because the old ones who are still living and the young ones that have arrived all migrate back to the sea, to lose their slenderness and gain in size.
(Rudolf Steiner, Lecture: FEtE - February 9, 1924; GA 352)
If you see in one creature an exceptional trait In some way bestowed, then ask at once where it suffers Elsewhere some lack, and search with investigative spirit. At once you will find to each form the key, For never did beast, with all kinds of teeth his upper Jaw bone bedecking, bear horns on its forehead, And therefore a horned lion the eternal mother Could not possibly fashion though she apply her full strength; For she has not mass enough, rows of teeth To fully implant and antlers and horns to push forth.
Users will not know any more difference between the change from G5 to Intel than they noticed in the switch from G4 to G5.
When the PowerPC came out, the 680x0 was obsolete, When the G4 came out, the G3 was obsolete, When the G5 came out, the G4 was obsolete, When the Intel chip comes out, users will adopt that chip as surely as if it were called a G6.
The soul of the Mac is not the processor, but the OS. OSX has been compiled on multiple-processors since it was a converted from NeXTstep. They needed to get everyone solidly over to OSX (which they have done) so that a change in processor wouldn't make 'any real difference' when they did it.
Now they're doing it, developers, for the most part, are just going to recompile - old users get to keep using their old machines, new users will work on the new processor, and nobody will care. the Mac will live on, and the lack of talk about processor speeds will remove just one more impediment for any users wanting to come on board...:-}
Few would defend a small view of Alchemy as 'Mother of Chemistry', and confuse its true goal with those external metal arts. Alchemy is an erotic science, involved in buried aspects of reality, aimed at purifying and transforming all being and matter. Not to suggest that material operations are ever abandoned. The adept holds to both the mystical and physical work.
They can picture love affairs of chemicals and stars, a romance of stones, or the fertility of fire. Stange, fertile correspondences the alchemists sensed in unlikely orders of being. Between men and planets, plants and gestures, words and weather.
The sense of information processing that is used in cognitive science, is at much too high a level of abstraction to capture the concrete biological reality of intrinsic intentionality. The "information" in the brain is always specific to some modality or other. It is specific to thought, or vision, or hearing, or touch, for example. The level of information processing which is described in the cognitive science computational models of cognition , on the other hand, is simply a matter of getting a set of symbols as output in response to a set of symbols as input.
We are blinded to this difference by the fact that the same sentence, "I see a car coming toward me", can be used to record both the visual intentionality and the output of the computational model of vision. But this should not obscure from us the fact that the visual experience is a concrete event and is produced in the brain by specific electro-chemical biological processes. To confuse these events and processes with formal symbol manipulation is to confuse the reality with the model. The upshot of this part of the discussion is that in the sense of "information" used in cognitive science it is simply false to say that the brain is an information processing device.
Summary of the Argument
This brief argument has a simple logical structure and I will lay it out:
1. On the standard textbook definition, computation is defined syntactically in terms of symbol manipulation.
2. But syntax and symbols are not defined in terms of physics. Though symbol tokens are always physical tokens, "symbol" and "same symbol" are not defined in terms of physical features. Syntax, in short, is not intrinsic to physics.
3. This has the consequence that computation is not discovered in the physics, it is assigned to it. Certain physical phenomena are assigned or used or programmed or interpreted syntactically. Syntax and symbols are observer relative.
4. It follows that you could not discover that the brain or anything else was intrinsically a digital computer, although you could assign a computational interpretation to it as you could to anything else. The point is not that the claim "The brain is a digital computer" is false. Rather it does not get up to the level of falsehood. It does not have a clear sense. You will have misunderstood my account if you think that I am arguing that it is simply false that the brain is a digital computer. The question "Is the brain a digital computer?" is as ill defined as the questions "Is it an abacus?", "Is it a book?", or "Is it a set of symbols?", "Is it a set of mathematical formulae?"
5. Some physical systems facilitate the computational use much better than others. That is why we build, program, and use them. In such cases we are the homunculus in the system interpreting the physics in both syntactical and semantic terms.
6. But the causal explanations we then give do not cite causal properties different from the physics of the implementation and the intentionality of the homunculus.
7. The standard, though tacit, way out of this is to commit the homunculus fallacy. The humunculus fallacy is endemic to computational models of cognition and cannot be removed by the standard recursive decomposition arguments. They are addressed to a different question.
8. We cannot avoid the foregoing results by supposing that the brain is doing "information processing". The brain, as far as its intrinsic operations are concerned, does no information processing. It is a specific biological organ and its specific neurobiological processes cause specific forms of intentionality. In the brain, intrinsically, there are neurobiological processes and sometimes they cause consciousness. But that is the end of the story.\**
Slashdot Mirror
crts were the 'second-last tube' -- commonly being replaced now with LCDs.
the light bulb is 'the last tube' -- soon to be replaced by LEDs...
j.
small micro-accumulation will occur in the darndest of places. if a chamber is sealed, bugs and critters are sure to get n there, and if some mice bring in a bunch of twigs and gum up the works -- and you have insects with a few centuries of grit in the device -- does it run as smoothly? the crawlspace under my house has loads of activity from little scurrying creatures -- anything that relies on exact tolerances for anything is sure to be gummed up -- its only a mattter of time.
yeah, but this clock will be obsoleted by the bush administration next spring -- when they change the rules for daylight savings time -- because america will not allow terrorist daylight savers to intimidate our country.
what is the current situation with instant messaging
is what was the case with email back in 1993-1995.
namely -- compuserve had their email, and didn't talk with anyone else.
genie had their email, and didn't talk with anyone else.
aol had their email, and didn't talk with anyone else.
it was often the case that you would have to have accounts on three
different systems (as well as a host of bbs') just to get email to
someone -- depending on which incompatible system they were on.
('can't get there from here' was often the case!)
then slowly, they started offering a new service 'internet gateway',
which allowed you to send email not only to their own internal service,
but to a universal 'internet' email address -- this became a tidal wave,
and now there's nothing but internet email addresses.
open standards and protocols are necessary for a free internet.
best regards,
j
over the 2004 christmas holidays, i was over at my friend's with my 3Gen iPod (15gig),
who has a small kid (4 years old?). had the 'iskin' rubber protection off, and the kid
was curious, and dropped it onto the wood floor while it was playing ,
and it just kept on going.
now, it probably cached the song, and the hard drive could've been idle,
but still -- after almost a year, the thing is still working perfectly, the
hard drive heads didn't get progressively worse from that point or anything.
-- its just one more ipod that survived a baby --
best regards,
j.
i guess they expect most people will connect through highspeed
or wireless, because they put in the video camera, and pulled out
the modem (its now an external usb adaptor cable).
theiDoctor
autodesk is so 'un-alias' -- its the end of alias...
'You can't say civilization doesn't advance,
for in every war they kill you a new way.
(Will Rogers)
if your 'commute is not too long' -- then why not consider :-}
using a bike to get to work for a year (or part of a year, if
the winter puts you off)? -- biking makes you feel great.
you don't need to pay for a gym, and if your commute is
less than 20 minutes by bike (10kms), its a great way to
get to work refreshed and feeling alive.
best regards,
john penner (toronto bike commuter - 5yrs)
> It will also 'search computers for music
> and movies and remove any illegal copies'
so how does it know the difference between an mp3 file
i've ripped from my CD collection (of 700 CDs) to use
on my ipod, or if it comes from a p2p download!?!?
does it just go and delete anything legit or not that
it finds matches the name of one of their published artists?
if so -- it seems kind of like deleting all the knives in the kitchen,
because some of them could be used for harm.
best regards,
j
it seems to me that apple doesn't think in terms of the hardware - software
dichotomy where what goes on the screen has nothing to do with what is
going on in the hardware -- with apple, the form and function become synonymous.
the scroll wheel becomes 'part of' what you see going on with the menu structure
on the screen, and it happens so that what you see on the screen is visually continuous
from the hardwired controls.
this seamlessness of form and function works really well with a WHITE ipod
using a WHITE UI background colour -- but when you look at the BLACK nano,
it still uses a white UI -- which breaks the total 'blackness' in a way which doesn't
occur with the white ipod (which has white case AND white UI).
it seems that to be consistent, they should also be able to set the screen's
UI colours such. that way, the white ipod uses a white bkgnd with black text,
and the black nano uses a black bkgnd with white text -- then the screen
UI for both versions would remain continuous with the outer form-factor.
probably the easiest form of implementation for this would be in the setttings,
to offer a selection of UI colour -- to match the colour of UI to the colour of
the case -- e.g. you could have a red and black UI for the U2 ipod.
2cents.
j.
read something interesting the other day -- before someone
arbitrarily picked TIME as the fourth dimension, many scientists
also considered HEAT as the fourth dimension.
j.
'Anyone who considers arithmetical methods
of producing random digits is, of course,
in a state of sin'. (John Von Neumann)
IQ is only part of the picture.
some people consider 'EQ' (emotional intelligence)
to be a greater predictor of 'success in the real world'.
regards,
j.
>> spoken in 1919:
At the present time the Earth is going through its Fourth Round, and
this is the mineral. During this time it is the task of mankind to work
upon the mineral kingdom... We are now in the midst of this activity,
and in the course of the next epochs, THE EARTH WILL HAVE TO BECOME
COMPLETELY TRANSFORMED, SO THAT EVENTUALLY THERE WILL BE
NO SINGLE ATOM ON THE EARTH THAT HAS NOT BEEN WORKED ON BY MAN.
In earlier times these atoms became more and more solidified; now however
they are becoming increasingly separated. Radio-activity did not exist in
earlier times and could not therefore be discovered. It has only existed
for a few thousand years, because now the atoms split up more and more.
(Foundations of Esotericism, Oct.5-1905, Rudolf Steiner Press, pp.66-67)
sorry, can't find it now, but i remember reading an interview with steve jobs
a couple years ago, and he said something to the effect of what this guy is
saying -- that certain people are able to produce not just an equivalent amount
of labour of another programmer, but really good talented individuals can
replace 20:1 or 40:1 in what they can accomplish.
then when he built the programming team at NeXT (the parent of OSX), he
leveraged this fact to get a small group of the best able minds to produce
what a much larger group of less talented people could not accomplish.
if anyone has a reference to that interview, it'd be greatly appreciated...
regards,
j
in the pre-OSX days, arlo was known by millions of macintosh
users for making 'Kaleidoscope' - it basically let users of
above-average graphic skill to theme the entire mac OS
interface down to the pixel without a lot of programming
knowledge. this was way ahead of anything that was done
in windows or linux. millions of mac users had custom UIs
because of this man.
but such a theme manager was closely tied with OS9,
and so when time came time for OSX, arlo started an even
more clever hack -- konfabulator.
now this was already very close to what apple always had with
desk accessories, but it was javascriptable (whereas DAs required
a separate development environment to compile); they were
internet enabled (desk accessories only lived in the time before
the internet); and they also had a really nice photoshop-able
front end (DAs couldn't utilize quickdraw as nicely as OSX's
incredible quartz graphics); and because CPUs were finally
fast enough, you could run them interpreted instead of
compiled.
these factors made konfabulator really nifty for quick, beautiful,
useful little utilities. but they fell too closely to apple's own revival
of the desk accessory concept, and so it looked like all of arlo's
hard work had all the chance of a netscape against a bundled browser.
so now yahoo buys them up, they all still got jobs, and it opens up
possiblities for them better than they ever had before -- this is a
good fate for these amazing mac developers. they have long been
a credit to the mac community. its great to see that they've come
across good fortune at this time. congratulations arlo & team!!
we love ya!
j.
compare to what was announced in the news today...
--| US Government Growing Giant Mutant Trout |---
Trout with three chromosome sets grew faster than fish with two sets, so the industry tries to breed fish with three sets for meat production. RAINBOW TROUT WITH THREE SETS OF CHROMOSOMES GROW FASTER BECAUSE THEY ARE UNABLE TO REPRODUCE. The energy from the food they eat is shifted from reproduction to growth.
with what was said in 1924...
--| What Steiner Said About Salmon in 1924 |---
Salmon... have a special organization. They must live in the sea to develop proper muscles. They need earth influences to feed properly and develop muscles. Those earth influences are mainly in the salt in the sea. Salmon must live in the salt of the sea in order to develop strong muscles. But they cannot reproduce if they live in the sea, because they are made in such a way that the sea water closes them off completely from the universe. Salmon would have died out long ago if they had to reproduce in the sea. They are the exception. As they gain their strength in the sea -- where they develop muscle -- they are in the first place fairly blind, and in the second place are unable to reproduce. Their reproductive organs and their sense organs grow weak, they are dull. But salmon grow big in the sea. Now to prevent the salmon from dying out -- we can see this by considering the salmon in the North Sea and over in the Atlantic -- salmon migrate up the Rhine year after year. This is why they are called Rhine salmon. But the Rhine makes salmon lean; they lose their muscles. The size to which they have grown in the salty sea is lost in the Rhine. The salmon get really slender; they lose their muscles. Their sense organs and above all their reproductive organs, male and female, develop to an enourmous degree, and the salmon are able to reproduce in the Rhine. The salmon must thus migrate from the salty sea to the freshwater Rhine every year in order to reproduce. They have to grow lean, because the old ones who are still living and the young ones that have arrived all migrate back to the sea, to lose their slenderness and gain in size.
(Rudolf Steiner, Lecture: FEtE - February 9, 1924; GA 352)
If you see in one creature an exceptional trait
In some way bestowed, then ask at once where it suffers
Elsewhere some lack, and search with investigative spirit.
At once you will find to each form the key,
For never did beast, with all kinds of teeth his upper
Jaw bone bedecking, bear horns on its forehead,
And therefore a horned lion the eternal mother
Could not possibly fashion though she apply her full strength;
For she has not mass enough, rows of teeth
To fully implant and antlers and horns to push forth.
(Goethe, Metamorphosis of Animals)
Users will not know any more difference between the change
from G5 to Intel than they noticed in the switch from G4 to G5.
When the PowerPC came out, the 680x0 was obsolete,
When the G4 came out, the G3 was obsolete,
When the G5 came out, the G4 was obsolete,
When the Intel chip comes out, users will adopt
that chip as surely as if it were called a G6.
The soul of the Mac is not the processor, but the OS.
OSX has been compiled on multiple-processors since
it was a converted from NeXTstep. They needed to get
everyone solidly over to OSX (which they have done) so
that a change in processor wouldn't make 'any real difference'
when they did it.
Now they're doing it, developers, for the most part, are
just going to recompile - old users get to keep using their
old machines, new users will work on the new processor,
and nobody will care. the Mac will live on, and the lack of talk
about processor speeds will remove just one more impediment
for any users wanting to come on board...
regards,
john.
Few would defend a small view of Alchemy as 'Mother of Chemistry',
and confuse its true goal with those external metal arts. Alchemy
is an erotic science, involved in buried aspects of reality,
aimed at purifying and transforming all being and matter.
Not to suggest that material operations are ever abandoned.
The adept holds to both the mystical and physical work.
They can picture love affairs of chemicals and stars, a romance of stones,
or the fertility of fire. Stange, fertile correspondences the alchemists
sensed in unlikely orders of being. Between men and planets, plants and
gestures, words and weather.
(Jim Morrison, The Lords: Notes on Vision; 1969)
windows is a 'good enough operating system'.
it has never been 'insanely great'.
John Searle - Is the Brain a Digital Computer?
The sense of information processing that is used in cognitive science, is at much too high a level of abstraction to capture the concrete biological reality of intrinsic intentionality. The "information" in the brain is always specific to some modality or other. It is specific to thought, or vision, or hearing, or touch, for example. The level of information processing which is described in the cognitive science computational models of cognition , on the other hand, is simply a matter of getting a set of symbols as output in response to a set of symbols as input.
We are blinded to this difference by the fact that the same sentence, "I see a car coming toward me", can be used to record both the visual intentionality and the output of the computational model of vision. But this should not obscure from us the fact that the visual experience is a concrete event and is produced in the brain by specific electro-chemical biological processes. To confuse these events and processes with formal symbol manipulation is to confuse the reality with the model. The upshot of this part of the discussion is that in the sense of "information" used in cognitive science it is simply false to say that the brain is an information processing device.
Summary of the Argument
This brief argument has a simple logical structure and I will lay it out:
1. On the standard textbook definition, computation is defined syntactically in terms of symbol manipulation.
2. But syntax and symbols are not defined in terms of physics. Though symbol tokens are always physical tokens, "symbol" and "same symbol" are not defined in terms of physical features. Syntax, in short, is not intrinsic to physics.
3. This has the consequence that computation is not discovered in the physics, it is assigned to it. Certain physical phenomena are assigned or used or programmed or interpreted syntactically. Syntax and symbols are observer relative.
4. It follows that you could not discover that the brain or anything else was intrinsically a digital computer, although you could assign a computational interpretation to it as you could to anything else. The point is not that the claim "The brain is a digital computer" is false. Rather it does not get up to the level of falsehood. It does not have a clear sense. You will have misunderstood my account if you think that I am arguing that it is simply false that the brain is a digital computer. The question "Is the brain a digital computer?" is as ill defined as the questions "Is it an abacus?", "Is it a book?", or "Is it a set of symbols?", "Is it a set of mathematical formulae?"
5. Some physical systems facilitate the computational use much better than others. That is why we build, program, and use them. In such cases we are the homunculus in the system interpreting the physics in both syntactical and semantic terms.
6. But the causal explanations we then give do not cite causal properties different from the physics of the implementation and the intentionality of the homunculus.
7. The standard, though tacit, way out of this is to commit the homunculus fallacy. The humunculus fallacy is endemic to computational models of cognition and cannot be removed by the standard recursive decomposition arguments. They are addressed to a different question.
8. We cannot avoid the foregoing results by supposing that the brain is doing "information processing". The brain, as far as its intrinsic operations are concerned, does no information processing. It is a specific biological organ and its specific neurobiological processes cause specific forms of intentionality. In the brain, intrinsically, there are neurobiological processes and sometimes they cause consciousness. But that is the end of the story.\**
good thing this didn't happen in america --
where rats are now terrorists too...
how's this any different
than scrawling a phone number
on a bathroom stall?
its true!
piracy worked to increase the mindshare
of both microsoft and autocad.