• kshade@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    I’d argue that knowledge is more than that, otherwise books or state machines could also be said to know things.

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      The plants are acquiring information and making an independent change to their status with this information. Books do nothing with knowledge other than communicate it to others. Machines are unable to make independent changes to itself unless programmed to do so.