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We Are Not Software: David Bentley Hart with Acid Horizon

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Syntax and Semantics Are Not the Same as Syntactic Engines

The brain is a computational platform. It began as existence as an organ for translating stimuli into responses and how runs a more sophisticated program that translates inputs into outputs. What we mistake for consciousness is just a token of a certain function that we then tell ourselves as consciousness by a heterothinological board. These are inseparable aspects of an already existing semiotic system. You can't have syntax prior to apart from semantics. Neither exist anywhere but in the intentional activity of a mind.

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