The position you state is functionalism. COMP also assumes that the physical state you speak of is emulable by a Turing machine.
On Wed, Jul 05, 2006 at 11:36:00AM -0700, George Levy wrote: > Bruno Marchal wrote: > > > Hi Norman, > > > > Le 20-juin-06, à 04:04, Norman Samish a écrit : > > > > > > I've endured this thread long enough! Let's get back to something > > I can understand! > > > > My background is more engineering and physics than mathematics and I do > share some of Norman misgivings. Some of it has to do with terminology. > For example the term "COMP hypothesis" does not carry any information. > Would it be more appropriate to rename it as an invariance, equivalence > or conservation law? For example would it be appropriate to call it > "invariance of consciousness with (change in physical) substrate?" > > George > > > -- *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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---