On Monday, January 21, 2013 5:38:32 PM UTC-5, Brent wrote: > > On 1/21/2013 2:09 PM, Craig Weinberg wrote: > > > > On Monday, January 21, 2013 4:59:55 PM UTC-5, Brent wrote: >> >> On 1/21/2013 11:05 AM, Stephen P. King wrote: >> >> Materialism fails since it cannot explain how it is possible for material >> things to have representations of things, intensionality, such as numbers. >> >> >> That's something evolution explains. >> > > Evolution can be used to retrospectively judge that it would be convenient > if there were such things as representations, but it offers no such thing > as a physical ontology of it. Evolution can also 'explain' why we have > teleportation, time travel, and telepathy in the same way. > > > If you want a causal explanation then I recommend you study computer > science and learn how a computer can have representations of cities and > faces. >
I have taught computer classes professionally actually. I'm certified MCSE and CCEA and have been using computers on a daily basis since 1981. Computers have no representations. It is us who use pixels to represent images or transistors to represent bits of information, not a computer. A computer wouldn't know the difference between a city and a face if it scanned every image of a face and a city in existence. I recommend you study semiotics and learn how symbols and subjects relate. Craig > Brent > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/everything-list/-/49pVJoVghBIJ. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en.
