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A computer program may fail to do what its programmer intends, but it always performs the operations it actually performs.
Unresolved speaker · Why Leibniz Couldn't Find the Mind Inside the Mill (Joscha Bach) · 2 Nov 2026
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“There is no difference. Maybe the computer program doesn't do what you want it to do, but it's always doing what it's doing. And, uh, in mathematics, there has been a divergence between what the mathematicians wanted to express and what the syntactic operations are doing.”1:10:56Report a misattribution
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