I read the Wikipedia of "The prestige" (too lazy to watch the movie ;-) and, yes, it's classical comp stuff *grin*
What I would like to recommend to everybody on the list is Greg Egan's book Permutation City I can recommend everything by Egan - hard, no nonsense, mathematically informed SciFi (his page is here: http://gregegan.customer.netspace.net.au/ he has good applets on his page also, check them out) In Permutation City, he explores personality duplication, platonic computation, "dust theory" of consciousness etc - an excellent, breathtaking book. Will transform your views, even if you have been thinking about these things for a long time. Cheers, Günther Bruno Marchal wrote: > > Le 16-avr.-08, à 15:13, nichomachus (Steve) a écrit : > >> The Prestige, with Christian Bale, Hugh Jackman, Michael Caine, Andy >> Serkis.... and David Bowie as Nikola Tesla... I also highly recommend >> this very entertaining movie that I saw last week. >> >> Unfortunately, Bruno, I don't see the connection between this film and >> the computationalist hypothesis. > > > Hmmm.... I don't want to spoil the movie either ... Have you study the > Universal Dovetailer Argument, or just the third key step? > > Note that from a purely strict logical point of view you don't need > comp but a weakening of it. But the comp hyp makes something (in the > movie) possible and even "real", and even already "real" in a sense > made explicit in the movie. > > Perhaps I will say more later, when more people (of the list) will have > seen the movie. > > Bruno > > > > http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/ > > > > > -- 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
