Re: Free Will in the Atlantic
Posted by
Marcus G. Daniels on
Apr 05, 2021; 4:14pm
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/Free-Will-in-the-Atlantic-tp7601346p7601427.html
< Anyway, the metaphysical commitments seep in at Church-Turing, I think. It's easy to lob accusations at, say, Roger Penrose for making a speculative argument that humans may be able to do things computers can't do. But I see both sides as making *useful* metaphysical commitments. One side has faith that our current formal systems will eventually reason over biological structures like the brain as *well* as they can reason over artifacts like the Transformer. The other side has faith that biological structures lie outside the formal systems we currently have available.>
These seem to me to physical issues not metaphysical issues. He's not proposing that humans *cannot* be understood, but that they may be insufficiently understood.
In any case, quantum chemistry can be simulated on classical computers. So it is a question of degree not category.
Marcus
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