Dear Bruno, > No. But making it precise and searching consequences helps to avoid > misunderstanding. The comp hyp is really a religious belief: it *is* a > belief in the fact that you can be reincarnated through a digital > reconstitution of yourself relatively to some hopefully stable set of > computational histories (on which you can only bet). So the question is > not "is comp true"? The question is really: "do you accept your > daughter marries a computationalist".
Ok, I'm with you :-) > And my point is only that IF comp is true then the mind body problem is > reduced into a derivation of physics (the eventually stable physical > beliefs) from ... addition and multiplication (and there is a gift: it Why would this only be true in comp? What I find strange is the following: why do people find "mind" something strange - why not accept it as something fundamental like electromagnetism or gravity? (Of course, it is not a force (or is it?)) Many people say a materialist/physicalist attitude fails to explain the mind. I agree if one remains in a dualist view of the world, but not if "mind" is accepted as something natural - something which occurs automatically if certain organizational criteria are met. > Yes indeed! But then how is it possible to convince someone who does > not reason correctly, of the advantage of reasoning correctly? > Answer: by letting him learn the consequences of reasoning incorrectly, > if he can still learn after! > Problem: about fundamental questions, this can take millennia, and more Agreed. Best, Günther -- Günther Greindl Department of Philosophy of Science University of Vienna [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.univie.ac.at/Wissenschaftstheorie/ Blog: http://dao.complexitystudies.org/ Site: http://www.complexitystudies.org --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
