Re: The prestige

[nichomachus]

On Apr 17, 5:17 am, Bruno Marchal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Le 16-avr.-08, à 15:13, nichomachus (Steve) a écrit :
>
> > The Prestige, with Christian Bale, Hugh Jackman, Michael Caine, Andy
> > Serkis.... and David Bowie as Nikola Tesla... I also highly recommend
> > this very entertaining movie that I saw last week.
>
> > Unfortunately, Bruno, I don't see the connection between this film and
> > the computationalist hypothesis.
>
> Hmmm.... I don't want to spoil the movie either ... Have you study the
> Universal Dovetailer Argument, or just the third key step?
>
> Note that from a purely strict logical point of view you don't need
> comp but a weakening of it. But the comp hyp makes something (in the
> movie) possible and even "real", and even already "real" in a sense
> made explicit in the movie.
>
> Perhaps I will say more later, when more people (of the list) will have
> seen the movie.


You're right, of course. Although I suppose we could just change the
subject to: "Spoiler Alert!!!!"  :)

>
> Bruno
>
> http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/
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