Comment by bwfan123

> should read philosophy

subject/object dichotomy is a springboard to many schools of thought.

1) that subject emerges from objects - ie, anything has a material explanation, and everything is a machine.

2) that objects emerge out of a subject as a world model (platonic, descartes)

3) the subject and objects are one and the same representation of nature (spinoza)

4) subjects and objects emerge and disappear together (buddhist)

Anything reduced to computation is a fixed function from input to output, and is "dead" in the sense that it is unadaptable to its environment. Weights therefore is a dead machine.

Another view of this is that any closed system has unanswerable questions within it. Therefore, there is no system that can encompass everything. Hence weights being a closed system doesnt encompass everything.