Yes - that's exactly what I meant. Assuming computationalism, consciousness is implied. I do not always assume computationalism :) ...
On Sat, Nov 05, 2005 at 02:51:24PM +0100, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > Le 05-nov.-05, ? 08:22, Russell Standish a ?crit : > > >Game of Life is an example 2D system capable of universal > >computation. I'm not sure this implies consciousness is possible in > >2D, but it needs to be considered. > > It is easy, although very tedious, to program a Universal Dovetailer, > in the game of life, and in that sense, assuming comp or some stronger > alpha-comp, it can generate consciousness, at least as seen from > inside. And then it generates the physics too (as seen from inside > again). > > Bruno > > > http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/ -- *PS: A number of people ask me about the attachment to my email, which is of type "application/pgp-signature". Don't worry, it is not a virus. It is an electronic signature, that may be used to verify this email came from me if you have PGP or GPG installed. Otherwise, you may safely ignore this attachment. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- A/Prof Russell Standish Phone 8308 3119 (mobile) Mathematics 0425 253119 (") UNSW SYDNEY 2052 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Australia http://parallel.hpc.unsw.edu.au/rks International prefix +612, Interstate prefix 02 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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