In-der-Blog-sein

Odious and Peculiar wonders about thinking and computation:

I wonder, though, if 'computation' is all that goes on. Heidegger divides calculation from contemplation quite sharply, and I'm not sure he's not on to something. It seems that there's something quite different going on when I, say, play chess or ping-pong, compared to when I'm reading philosophy. I've yet to be convinced that my more abstract maunderings can be reduced to ones and zeros.

I think there's an ontological difference between computation and thinking. Beyond the specific case that contemplation is not calculation. All human thinking is enowned, machine computation isn't. Even when a human calculates a sum, she is doing something different from the machine, and arriving at the same answer.
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