No: computers can't understand images [5b] Position #221

Computers can't think because they can't use images in the way that people do. Computers can only deal with formal symbolic information.

Robert Horn Map 5b: Can Computers Think In Images?
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The questions explored on Map 5b – Can computers think in images? are:

  • Can images be realistically represented in computer arrays?
  • Can computers represent the analogue properties of images?
  • Can computers recognize Gestalts?
  • Are images less fundamental than propositions?
  • Is image psychology a valid approach to mental processing?
  • Are images quasi-pictorial representations?
  • Other imagery arguments

Note

Note: 'Image'  in these arguments usually refers to an "eye-closed" image, which is imagined in one's mind without the real object necessarily being present. Sometimes, the term is also used to describe an "eyes-open" perception.
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IssueCan computers think? [1]
PositionNo: computers can't understand images [5b]
SupportiveArgumentCan’t recognise similarities between whole images
SupportiveArgumentGestalt recognition is impossible for computers
SupportiveArgumentNeed images to be transformed into descriptions
OpposingArgumentComputers can’t represent analogue properties
OpposingArgumentImages are secondary to propositions
OpposingArgumentImages represented by filled cells in an array
RelevanceImplementable in functional system
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