I'm not entirely opposed to the kind of animism that assigns a certain amount of soul, consciousness, or being to everything in a spectrum between a rock and a philosopher... but even so.
replyMultiplying large matrices over and over is very much towards the "rock" end of that scale.
If we accept the Church-Turing thesis, a philosopher can be simulated by a simple Universal Turing machine.
replyIf one day we are able to create a philosopher from such a rudimentary machine (and a lot of tape), would you consider that very much towards the "rock" end as well?