On Wed, May 24, 2023 at 1:37 AM Jason Resch <jasonre...@gmail.com> wrote:
*> By substituting a recording of a computation for a computation, you > replace a conscious mind with a tape recording of the prior behavior of a > conscious mind. * But you'd still need a computation to find the particular tape recording that you need, and the larger your library of recordings the more complex the computation you'd need to do would be. *> This is what happens in the Blockhead thought experiment* And in that very silly thought experiment your library needs to contain every sentence that is syntactically and grammatically correct. And there are an astronomical number to an astronomical power of those. Even if every electron, proton, neutron, photon and neutrino in the observable universe could record 1000 million billion trillion sentences there would still be well over a googolplex number of sentences that remained unrecorded. Blockhead is just a slight variation on Searle's idiotic Chinese room. John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis> hdf -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv3YRnBkkCoi9YgyQFh126Qi4KpiYR2K5mZZc%2BgtjoncYA%40mail.gmail.com.
