I recently came across unsupervised machine translation here. It’s not directly applicable, but it opens the possibility that, given enough information about “something”, you can pin down what it’s encoding in your own language.
So let’s say now that we have a computer that simulates a human brain in a manner that we understand. Perhaps there really could be a sense in which it simulates a human brain that is independent of our interpretation of it. I’m having some trouble formulating this precisely.
Right, and per the second part of my comment—insofar as consciousness is a real phenomenon, there’s an empirical question of if whatever frame invariant definition of computation you’re using is the correct one.
I recently came across unsupervised machine translation here. It’s not directly applicable, but it opens the possibility that, given enough information about “something”, you can pin down what it’s encoding in your own language.
So let’s say now that we have a computer that simulates a human brain in a manner that we understand. Perhaps there really could be a sense in which it simulates a human brain that is independent of our interpretation of it. I’m having some trouble formulating this precisely.
Right, and per the second part of my comment—insofar as consciousness is a real phenomenon, there’s an empirical question of if whatever frame invariant definition of computation you’re using is the correct one.