[Fis] What is a machine?

[Jerry LR Chandler]

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Hi Annette, 

> On Nov 3, 2019, at 4:42 PM, annette.grathoff at is4si.org wrote:
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>  ...where a centralized nervous system and brain analyses signals incoming from many different cells and sub-cellular systems and integrates them into a global feeling which aids as evaluation capacity in decision making. Descartes had to deliberately exclude this topic from the sciences for reasons quite understandable at his times, but today?
> Is the evaluation capacity and evaluation depth of machines in any way comparable to the one of biological systems or is it a complete new path in the history of prioritizing?

Thank you for focusing a deeper perspective on the well-worn metaphors about mathematical machines.  

What do you think is the role of information-bearing symbols in the possible forms of machines?
Is there a truth function that connects abstract machines to the logic of reality?
(Is this the constraint that you believe Descarte declined to address?) The bipolarity of Quantum theory (QED) seems to address the your issues from a sub-atomic perspective. Or hav I mis-interpreted you intended meaning?

Numerous scientific symbol systems are used routinely in the everyday pragmatism of doing science of reality.  Why?  Why so many different symbol systems?  Are numerous symbol systems actually necessary for human communication of information?

Can you imagine one “machine language” that could serve to communicate information, irrespective of the particular scientific symbols used by humans?

The writings of C S Peirce (breath and comprehension as properties of information) and of J S Mills (homeopathic and heteropathic representational structures of emergence) seem to lurking in the philosophic ether that motivates these distinctions.

W.R.T 
> Is the evaluation capacity and evaluation depth of machines in any way comparable to the one of biological systems or is it a complete new path in the history of prioritizing?

It is possible to give a logically rigorous path that  connects heteropathic scientific antecedents to emergent heteropathic consequences by numerical paths. Such a path  embraces the notion of mappings between scientific notations and correspondence between the logical terms of scientific notations.  I published a short paper on this in a conference proceedings a couple of years ago; the thread of logic is by extension of scale and by abductive scopes of meanings of propositional terms.

Cheers

Jerry









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