How do you know that my brain doesn’t have algorithms running for all of these problems?
Surely for tea making it’s something like this: I want tea—Do I have all ingredients? -- (Water) yes, (Tea bag) no—Do I go to the store? -- Is the store open etc…
I don’t know that. I am not claiming to “know” any of what I write here. I don’t think it is knowable. I just write about what is obvious to me. This doesn’t amount to knowledge, though.
In theory it could be possible that there is an algorithm, even though noone showed this. I doubt it, though. In any case, there would be some non-algorithmical way to arrive at this algorithm, which just shifts the mystery from humans to something else.
Actually it seems that you could describe everything that happens in terms of an algorithm. The simplest possibility is to just describe what happens in a string and let the algorithm output that.
This doesn’t imply, though, that this is what makes things happen.
But even then, this algorithm still couldn’t be derived from algorithms alone.
How do you know that my brain doesn’t have algorithms running for all of these problems?
Surely for tea making it’s something like this: I want tea—Do I have all ingredients? -- (Water) yes, (Tea bag) no—Do I go to the store? -- Is the store open etc…
I don’t know that. I am not claiming to “know” any of what I write here. I don’t think it is knowable. I just write about what is obvious to me. This doesn’t amount to knowledge, though.
In theory it could be possible that there is an algorithm, even though noone showed this. I doubt it, though. In any case, there would be some non-algorithmical way to arrive at this algorithm, which just shifts the mystery from humans to something else.
Actually it seems that you could describe everything that happens in terms of an algorithm. The simplest possibility is to just describe what happens in a string and let the algorithm output that. This doesn’t imply, though, that this is what makes things happen. But even then, this algorithm still couldn’t be derived from algorithms alone.