Le Tuesday 29 Août 2006 16:46, 1Z a écrit : > 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.
Would you say that a conscious program (if it is possible of course, imagine for the argument) that contains a lot of dead code (code that is not executed whatever input) should be more "conscious" than the same program without the dead part ? If a conscious program exists, and we record all input that this program as received and like Stathis propose we restart it and feed it with the same exact input will it still be conscious ? If your answer to this is is a conscious program exists, it should be non deterministic... Then that would only mean we cannot record exactly the input... because a program which use a true random generator is not deterministic not because of the program which is always deterministic, but from the inability to predict/record the input exactly. And so my question would be, is the consciousness located in the random generator instead of the program ? why bother with the program then ? Quentin --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
