Re:Fifty or Sixty Years of Processor Development for This?
by mjburgess on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @05:46AM
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Sounds like (metaphysical) idealism.
The difference between idealism and realism here is meta-empirical. I would say idealism is false, and in fact, nothing is a model and everything is concrete.
To call the computer program a model is to say that when I look at it, I can use it to inform myself about the world.
It's an abstract property. The actual system in question is silicon and electrical current, etc. And thus shares nothing of interest with gold.
The difference between idealism and realism here is meta-empirical. I would say idealism is false, and in fact, nothing is a model and everything is concrete.
To call the computer program a model is to say that when I look at it, I can use it to inform myself about the world.
It's an abstract property. The actual system in question is silicon and electrical current, etc. And thus shares nothing of interest with gold.