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Ep 9 "The Reality of Abstractions" Ch.5 Part 2

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The Mathematician's Misconception

The reason the domino falls or doesn't in hofsted's argument, is because the input is either or. The repertoire of all possible computations that a brain can do is in one to one correspondence with those of a universal cheering machine. There's nothing an universal cheering machine can do that a person cannot,. and there's nothing a person can do thata universal cheering machine cannot. A mathematician's misconception? Well, it's the denial that proof is physical.

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