Colin Geoffrey Hales wrote: > >
> Q. What is it like to be a human? It is like being a mind. There is > information delivered into the mind by the action of brain material which > bestows on the human intrinsic knowledge about the natural world outside > the human....in the form of phenomenal consciousness. This knowledge is > not a model/abstraction, but a literal mapping of what's there (no matter > how mysterious its generation may seem). What is the difference between a "model" and a "literal mapping" ? > The zombie does not have this. Why not ? > Nor does the Turing machine. > No matter how good the a-priori abstraction given by the human the UM will > do science on its sensory feeds until it can no longer distinguish any > effect because the senses cannot discriminate it Don't humans have sensory limits? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
