The difference of a human machine from a computer is that it does have a "psychology" to regulate it. That's how the machine makes executive decisions. The mind isn't a carrier or user interface for some computer program "making them do it".
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A computer isn't special because it's "artificial". We could by some argument declare that every human alive is artificial. We were created by a mechanical process (sex) in a factory by feeding on material. We usually engage in sex deliberate with the expectation of creating a child.
aug 28, 2025, 12:46 pm • 0 0 • view
What makes the computer special is that we specifically designed such a machine not to "think". If a computer "thinks" like we do, it would not carry out a rote algorithmic task faithfully and without error (if we designed the computer to never fault which we mostly accomplished).
aug 28, 2025, 12:48 pm • 0 0 • view
Everything done with computer science, and this would apply to any computer so analog computers are not exceptional, is about replacing "thought" with some mechanical action that operates on some symbolic representation. The computer is a tool for that purpose, not a mind or intelligence itself.
aug 28, 2025, 12:49 pm • 0 0 • view
In ordinary language, if we call something a mind, we're talking about a psychological faculty. Computer science helps with resolving patterns in how we use our faculties to manipulate things we can symbolically represent, though not exactly HOW we do any of that, or what "thinking" "REALLY" means.
aug 28, 2025, 4:16 pm • 1 0 • view
You're right that in the sense I used "artificial", humans are also artificial: manmade. But perhaps more importantly, they're not yet man-designed, at least as much as machines. Much of today's ideology involves ignoring that gap when talking about the poor, because again, why would elitists care?
aug 28, 2025, 4:20 pm • 1 0 • view
If we aren't already "machines" which they design and give purposes to, they'll try to make sure we are. It's one reason why Eugenics appealed to them so much: "we can self-direct evolution!"
aug 28, 2025, 4:24 pm • 1 0 • view