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Computers behave like reality 2017-08-03 10:49:44 Post No. 9082254
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Recently it's been bugging me how people talk about quantum mechanics in terms of reality behaving like a computer.
Planes behave like birds. Nobody says "Wow birds behave just like planes!" Planes behave like birds because outstretched wings (or helicopter blades) create Bernouli lift. Planes behave like birds with the objective of flight.
Cars behave like pack horses, not vice versa. Four wheels are modeled on four legs because it's an optimised ratio of balance and energy efficiency. 6 wheels on hexagonal chassis would also work, but less effectively. Two wheels are more efficient, but less stable. Cars behave like pack horses (or oxen or donkeys), not vice versa, with the objective of transporting things.
Yet when people look into quantisation and discreet states in nature, everyone yammers on about how reality is behaving like a computer, flipping the convention for no good reason. Reality doesn't behave like a computer, computers behave like reality, and the objective is information processing.
Anyway, just throwing that into the wind.
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>>9082254
>computers behave like reality
Only if programmed as such.
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>>9082254
The key point you are missing is that birds and horses have minds of their own. Whereas you can control planes and cars to go where ever you wish. What you are trying to pass of as counterexamples only serves to strength the argument you are trying to refute.
Now as for computers, no one in their right might would tell OP that he isn't a fag, so he would have to program a computer to tell him that instead.
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>>9082635
Actually, to be more precise OP would have to make a computer game where his actions don't make him a fag.
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>>9082635
It was a purely mechanistic argument, which is why I mentioned mechanical properties (lift, balance, etc) that serve an objective.
But I'm curious how a bird having consciousness strengthens the argument against synthetic things "behaving like" natural ones.
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