Bruno Marchal wrote: > Le 05-sept.-06, à 15:38, 1Z a écrit : > > > > >> The conscious computations, on the other hand, are there and > >> self-aware > > > > Not really. They are just possibilities. > > > >> even though we cannot interact with them, just as all the statues in > >> a block of marble would be conscious > >> if statues were conscious and being embedded in marble did not render > >> them unconscious. > > > > But that gets to the heart of the paradox. You are suggesting that > > conscious > > computations are still conscious even thought hey don't exst and > > are mere possiiblities! That is surely a /reductio/ of one of your > > premisses > > > The everything-lister, with or without comp, takes as natural the idea > that all possibilities exist, and that actuality is just a possibility > viewed from that possibility.
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