I’ll interrupt you here to make a statement. It takes a mind of logic to understand logic. The mind requires an understanding of the rules of logic, and how to discern true statements from false statements with the use of those logic rules.
A computer is similarly constructed. It requires an understanding of the rules of logic in order to process logical statements. Without the framework of the software to do this, the computer would be just a pile of metal and circuit boards.
I said all that to say that: the human mind only does what it was instructed to do by the rules of logic that are built into it - whether those rules were placed there by God, or through the accumulative learning process.
The human mind is similar. It has the hardware (the gray matter) and the software (the rules of accumulated logic).
I can imagine that human software may work similarly.
Summation: So far, I have made the assertion that computers are logic machines. You have denied this, yet all of your answers support my contention that computers are logic machines. Just as human brains work as logic machines, so too do computers.
That’s right.
THE RULES OF LOGIC are built into the computer. It takes those RULES OF LOGIC to process logic. If you didn’t build the logic into the machine before you tried to process the logic, you would never get anything.
Well, sure. But it doesn’t change the fact that you’re wrong.
I appreciate your retraction, and if I’ve said anything in a belittling manner, I apologize as well. I may be passionate, but I certainly don’t dislike anyone here!
