Stathis Papaioannou wrote:
> I'm not necessarily talking about every possible computation being > implemented by > every physical system, just (at least) the subset of finite computations > implemented by > a physical computer or brain. I think this is another way of saying that a > recording, or > a single trace of a computation branching in the multiverse, can be > conscious. To prevent > a recording being consious yoiu can insist on counterfactual behaviour, but > that seems an > ad hoc requirement introduced simply to prevent the "trivial" case of a > recording or any > physical system implementing a computation. The requirement that computations require counterfactuals isn't ad hoc, it comes from the observation that computer programmes include if-then statements. The idea that everyting is conscious unless there is a good reason it isn't -- *that* is ad hoc! --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
