Stathis Papaioannou wrote: > Brent Meeker writes: > > >>Almost is not completely. In any case, I don't think consciousness is >>maintained >>indefinitely with no inputs. I think a "brain-in-a-vat" would go into an >>endless >>loop without external stimulus. > > > That's an assumption,
No, it has empirical support. It is what is reported by people in extended sensory deprivation experiments. >but even if true it would only say something about the > nature of human brains. It is easy enough to imagine a brain with > self-excitatory > neurons that provide the same kind of input as the environment does, > modulating > their activity in response to feedback from other neurons. It would just be a > technical problem to ensure that it didn't go into an endless loop. Without inherent (quantum) randomness? I don't think so. Close deterministic systems have a Poincare return time. Brent Meeker --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
