Ask Searle - he believes the latter but not the former.
But also "like a digital computer" could suggest an image of things like "works in binary" or "has a clock cycle" or "is designed to be very deterministic and predicable" or all sorts of things that are true of real computers in the real world but not of brains. To put it another way, by that interpretation everything in the world is like a digital computer, which makes it mean little.
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Date: 2002-12-11 04:39 am (UTC)But also "like a digital computer" could suggest an image of things like "works in binary" or "has a clock cycle" or "is designed to be very deterministic and predicable" or all sorts of things that are true of real computers in the real world but not of brains. To put it another way, by that interpretation everything in the world is like a digital computer, which makes it mean little.