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...
Spectra is shorthand for "spectral distributions", and refers to the distributions of intensities of light as a function of frequency across a band of...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Of course it is. "Red" is a trichromatic color category; it's roughly an equivalence class of spectral distributions defined by the differential stimu...
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...
Dr. Nim (the board game/canonically famous, genius, and simple mechanical computer) performs calculations, but does not employ rational thought. Ratio...
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 ...
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 ...
^-- 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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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