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Wittgenstein versus Turing on the nature of Church's thesis (1987)

3 pointsby losfairover 2 years ago

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082349872349872over 2 years ago
tl;dr: Wittgenstein (and hence Shanker) make life difficult for themselves by assuming that something carrying out the steps of a formal calculation and reflecting upon these actions somehow has any useful content over the simpler (yet equally useful) abstraction of something that carries out the steps of a formal calculation (independent of whether these steps are reflected upon or not).