Re: subjective reality

[Bruno Marchal]

On 30 Aug 2005, at 18:01, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:  Just to show you I am not mean spirited may I make the following suggestive question: "Could your argument be  made on the basis of something not as drastic as YD, say a Turing Test type argument, which would not require  you to take someone apart but just produce a convincing simulation?". Just a thought... Perhaps I should give you my original motivation. My deeper goal has always been to just explain that the "mind-body" problem has not been solved. In term of the mind body problem, what I have done can be seen as "just" a reduction of a problem into another. With the comp hyp,  I have reduced the mind-body problem to the problem of explaining the appearance of the physical laws from arithmetic/computer science. For this YD is needed, if only to make palpable the relation with cognitive science. Then I interview the machine and YD is eliminated, although we should need to dig a little more in the technics for adding some nuances. Bruno http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/