There is no such thing as an abstract machine, nor an abstract computation. If you imagine a machine adding two and two, the computation is implemented in your brain, which holds a representation of the operations. Physics is information; information is also physics. There is no information without a physical embodiment; there is no computation without physical operations.
Humans don’t have infinite memory, and thus are less-powerful than Turing machines.
“Computing red”: Please put more words into that phrase. It’s too ambiguous to deal with.
Functions vs. algorithms: This is a good question. Can a lookup table be conscious? I said no. Therefore I must choose ‘algorithm’.
A theory that explains consciousness should be statable in abstract terms using mathematical operations.
Yes, a theory that explains consciousness must explain qualia.
Answering that question would mislead people more than it would inform.
There is no such thing as an abstract machine, nor an abstract computation. If you imagine a machine adding two and two, the computation is implemented in your brain, which holds a representation of the operations. Physics is information; information is also physics. There is no information without a physical embodiment; there is no computation without physical operations.
Humans don’t have infinite memory, and thus are less-powerful than Turing machines.
“Computing red”: Please put more words into that phrase. It’s too ambiguous to deal with.
Functions vs. algorithms: This is a good question. Can a lookup table be conscious? I said no. Therefore I must choose ‘algorithm’.
A theory that explains consciousness should be statable in abstract terms using mathematical operations.
Yes, a theory that explains consciousness must explain qualia.
Answering that question would mislead people more than it would inform.