He didn’t say the question is pointless, he said that arguing about them is kind of pointless. It’s an empirical question for which we have no good evidence.
… what? I’m confused what you’re referring to.
He said the question was “mostly” a matter of “just definitions that you adopt or don’t adopt.” How is that an “empirical question”?And if we have “no good evidence” for it, why is a site moderator saying that the assumption of computationalism is so reasonable (and, implicitly, well-established) that you don’t even need to argue for it in a curated post?
Moreover,I disagreed with his conclusion,and in any case,as has already been written about on this site many times, if you are actually just disputing definitions (as he claims we are), then you are dealing with a pointless (and even wrong) question. So, in this case, you can’t say “arguing about them is kind of pointless” without also saying “the question is pointless.”
… what? I’m confused what you’re referring to.
He said the question was “mostly” a matter of “just definitions that you adopt or don’t adopt.” How is that an “empirical question”? And if we have “no good evidence” for it, why is a site moderator saying that the assumption of computationalism is so reasonable (and, implicitly, well-established) that you don’t even need to argue for it in a curated post?
Moreover, I disagreed with his conclusion, and in any case, as has already been written about on this site many times, if you are actually just disputing definitions (as he claims we are), then you are dealing with a pointless (and even wrong) question. So, in this case, you can’t say “arguing about them is kind of pointless” without also saying “the question is pointless.”