[FRIAM] coding versus music

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No, I didn't miss the conditional. Both with and without monism, you can call anything "communication" if you want. The garage door opener can, given monism, and given stigmergy, be thought of as a communication from me to some far future civilization, for example... or as a way to tell GE how to build a better one, or whatever. But it's not. Sometimes a garage door opener is just a garage door opener. It's completely useless to expand every artifact out into a kind of communication.

So, sometimes a programmed computer is communication and sometimes it's not. Talk concretely about what you want to talk about and the conversation will be more productive.

On 1/27/21 12:05 PM, thompnickson2 at gmail.com wrote:
> You missed the conditional. "Absent dualism..." what separates getting a machine to do something from getting a human to do something?  If you answer is "dualism", then there's no need to talk further.  We've been there, done that!  

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