Re: On the computability of consciousness

2010-03-20 Thread David Nyman
On 24 February 2010 17:57, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: Please, keep in mind I may miss your point, even if I prefer to say that you are missing something, for being shorter and keeping to the point. You really put your finger right on the hardest part of the mind-body problem.

Re: Jack's partial brain paper

2010-03-20 Thread Bruno Marchal
You will find them by clicking on publications on my home page http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/ The main one is informatique théorique et philosophie de l'esprit (theoretical computer science and philosophy of mind). Toulouse 1988. Like my thesis I have been asked to do in french (alas).

Re: On the computability of consciousness

2010-03-20 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 20 Mar 2010, at 16:56, David Nyman wrote: On 24 February 2010 17:57, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: Please, keep in mind I may miss your point, even if I prefer to say that you are missing something, for being shorter and keeping to the point. You really put your finger right

Re: On the computability of consciousness

2010-03-20 Thread David Nyman
On 20 March 2010 18:22, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: Well, if by 3-p Chalmers you mean some 'body', such a body *is* a zombie. The 1-p Chalmers is Chalmers, the person. Its body does not think, but makes higher the probability that the 1-p thoughts refers to the most probable