Bruno Marchal wrote:
> You asked me more difficult problems in the past, John. > *assuming comp*, there is an easy answer. Go to Numberplatonia, use > Goedel's technic to write a little program with the instruction "help > yourself". Pray each day your little program develop itself convenably, > perhaps with the help of the heaven. When sufficiently developed, > maybe after billions of years, invite e to the next grocery and buy er > a vanilla candy, and then ask er. E will give you the best description > you can ever hope of a taste of vanilla, corresponding to a billion > years of ordinary number manipulations and you can look at them if you > have print the execution of the program. There is no reason to think numbers can describe qualia at all, so the question of the "best" description hardly arises. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
