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You do realize that before "computer" was a type of machine, it was a job description, don't you? Calculation is just a more abstract term than you're...
February 16, 2020 at 16:06
Spectra is shorthand for "spectral distributions", and refers to the distributions of intensities of light as a function of frequency across a band of...
February 16, 2020 at 12:33
Dr. Nim performs calculations in this sense; it employs a deliberate process that transforms inputs into outputs. But it's not programmed; a program i...
February 16, 2020 at 05:17
The term "red/green colorblind" I think is nonsense to apply to a dog. Red/green colorblind is a term that can apply to protanopes (humans with L cone...
February 15, 2020 at 23:44
Nope; I objected to that notion because I think the existence metric is silly. If there are real humans, with real properties, that see a particular c...
February 15, 2020 at 22:23
It's a little more complex than this. Say you have six balls... three green, and three red. You go to your friend, who just so happens to be a protano...
February 15, 2020 at 22:17
Well it's all the same spectra... so it's a matter of whether or not the animal can distinguish the things we identify as red and recognize them, whic...
February 15, 2020 at 22:00
Of course it is. "Red" is a trichromatic color category; it's roughly an equivalence class of spectral distributions defined by the differential stimu...
February 15, 2020 at 21:52
But humans are the only ones that see "red", "green", "yellow", "blue", "brown", and other colors humans talk about. Humans are the only ones matching...
February 15, 2020 at 21:33
Dr. Nim (the board game/canonically famous, genius, and simple mechanical computer) performs calculations, but does not employ rational thought. Ratio...
February 15, 2020 at 20:05
I think you're severely confused about the very subject of the conversation. What I'm telling you is something like this. There are signals coming to ...
February 15, 2020 at 17:19
Well... it's a little more complex than this... a digital camera is "pretty", so we can talk about such things in very few terms and have a good idea ...
February 15, 2020 at 03:42
^-- this! Physicists often use the word "color" and associate it with frequency of light. Some of these poor saps are confused; among those not confus...
February 14, 2020 at 23:43
I'm voting no; it doesn't matter. For "the definition" of free will, I take the linguistic approach; which is to say, I don't define free will. Instea...
February 14, 2020 at 21:30
Not exactly. What I'm sensing is cochlea hairs bending. An organ is mapping sounds (say, vibrations of my eardrum) to physical locations in the cochle...
February 14, 2020 at 16:57
This seems to be a definitions issue to me, and it seems a bit simplistic. There is sensation, and there is perception, and there is logic. To me, it ...
February 14, 2020 at 14:23
I'm going to attempt to ground this discussion by introducing a few things I've dug up. Let's start by exploring our already extant (as opposed to spe...
February 14, 2020 at 13:16