Lexicon of Arguments

 Philosophical and Scientific Issues in Dispute
 
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II 529
Simulation: no one confuses the simulation of gases, liquids, in physics with the things themselves (Dennett about simulated hurricanes ("brainstorms"). What goes on in a computer when it simulates a hurricane, is obviously not a hurricane.
((s) But there is no hurricane raging in the minds of the people affected by a real hurricane, not even in the sensory organs.)
Natural Law/storm: The storm does not shred the laws of physics.
II 534
Simulation: what would you say if it means that the calculations performed by the computer are only simulations!
>Computers, >Computation, >Computer model of the mind, >Addition, >Computability.
Computers find the right answers, therefore their calculations are not a fraud, but only masks. It lacks the inner understanding of the process.
>Understanding.

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