Russell Standish wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 01:18:06PM -0000, 1Z wrote: > > > > That is an interesting point. However, a computation would have to be > > associated > > with all related branches in order to bring all the counterfactuals (or > > rather > > conditionals) into a single computation. > > > > (IOW treating branches individually would fall back into the problems > > of the Movie approach) > > > > If a computation is associated with all branches, consciousness will > > also be > > according to computationalism. That will bring on a White Rabbit > > problem with a vengeance. > > Not really, as conscious experience is only associated with one > branch, Why ? > but multiple branches are needed to have any conscious > experience at all. I don't see why. According to computationalism, consciousness supervenes on a computation, or multiple computations. According to the "many worlds" answer to the counterfactual problem, one comuputation corrsponds to many branches. So consciousness must correspond to multiple branches. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
