On 18/02/2008, John Ku <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sure, pretty much anything could be used as a symbol to represent > anything else, but the representing would consist in the network of > causal interactions that constitute the symbol manipulation, not in > the symbols themselves. (And certainly not in anyone having to be > around to understand the machinery of symbol manipulation going on.)
Atoms jostling each other in thermal motion could be used to represent the symbols and the causal interactions that constitute the symbol manipulation. -- Stathis Papaioannou ------------------------------------------- singularity Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/11983/=now RSS Feed: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/11983/ Modify Your Subscription: http://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=4007604&id_secret=96140713-a54b2b Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
