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author Henry Thompson <ht@markup.co.uk>
date Thu, 01 May 2025 16:44:50 +0100
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1 Jim's housemate is an editor - Nora
2 Deference Humility and Awe talk to be transcribed?
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4 What are we aiming at?
5 A short more accessible book, oriented towards a public audience?
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7 Interesting properties of the DFA talk:
8 Skeleton?
9 Talk is drenched with insightful remarks and allusions
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11 HST: aim to a) Convince people of certain propositions
12 b) Excite people about the possibility of a new way to
13 approach our understanding of [r-s]
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15 BCS: Contemporary ... taking on subject matters that have classically
16 been considered from [r-s]
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18 These accounts do not do justice to such topics
19 E.g. reducing truth to syntactic consistency
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21 Because they fail to take account of embodiment, indexicality,
22 non-effectiveness
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24 How to conclude:
25 They none-the-less have something to contribute
26 They are at best a waste of time, as omitting [ein-e] renders
27 them useless
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29 CR sub-title -- something like "Exploring the foundations of computing"
30 or, bolder, "New foundations for computing"
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32 Elevator pitch(es) for CR:
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34 The appropriation of concepts and vocabulary from philosophy of mind
35 and of language by computer science not only misuses them, that
36 _mis_appropriation actually undermines the adequacy of the resulting
37 account. [HST]
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39 If one recognises the central, indeed essential, role of
40 non-effective relations, one not only hews closer to the usages of
41 philosphy, it does a better job of explaining. But the centraiity
42 it gives to non-effective relations violates long-standing canons of
43 what it is to be scientific.