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Everything and everybody then is a translation device of some sort. It is only in what you conceive of the device doing that there lies a difference. For the Russellian view there will be a hierarchy of clear down to unclear statements with the highest statements being locked up in some way with the world. We come to agreement with one another here by seeing the world in, and with, our totally clear (transparent) language. The Turing scheme, in distinction to the Russellian one, conceives of a number of translations devices operating on each other to alter the state of the mechanism itself. We may come to an agreement here, if we decide to use the same language and if our application of the language is the same. In other words if we talk the same and use the same methodology. We come to agreement, or decide upon our disagreements, through the acceptance of languages and what we will take as the proper translation between these languages. This will hold for every device and language; from Kurds talking to Swedes, from botanists talking to artists, from Auto Club members talking to members of Parliament; to the Turing device talking to us. The meanings of Russell's vs. Turing's systems then is Russell proposes an enclosed system of the world, while Turing proposes an distributed, augmented one. |
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