stone wrote:
> The computer uses transitors which close and open allowing for only two
> positions to use a binary code of 1's and 0's. The semiconductors that the
> small transistors in the chips are made of will either conduct current or
> not conduct current according to temperature. So, the millions of
> transistors act like swithes which are either open or closed, to make a 1 or
> 0 for the binary code.
> Let's consider these switches to be saying either yes or no. Comparing this
> to human thought which has imagination and free will, it seems that human
> thought also has maybe, and not just yes or no.

This sounds like the fallacy of composition. Why not simply represent
more states with combinations of multiple bits?


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