On 31 Oct 2008, at 13:00, Stathis Papaioannou wrote:
> > 2008/10/31 Bruno Marchal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> I agree that a corpse can be considered as blind, deaf, amnesic and >> paralytic. But a corpse does not vehiculate a person. >> A blind, deaf, amnesic and paralytic is not necessarily a corpse. It >> could vehiculate a person which, although blind, deaf, amnesic and >> paralytic, feels herself alive, and in that case has survived (the >> accident, the teleportation, etc.). > > I don't understand "vehiculate". I have to confess that my computer doesn't understand it either! Let us say that something vehiculates a person when, by definition that person, or its consciousness, supervenes on that something. It is believed by both mechanist and naturalist, for example, that consciousness supervenes on the activity of the brain. I will say equivalently that the brain vehiculates the person or its consciousness. naturalist or physical supervenience becomes "mind is vehiculated by (or supervene on) " physical substructure (portion) of the physical universe. I define arithmetical or computationalist supervenience by: mind is vehiculated by or through (or supervene on) some relations between natural numbers. (Precisely the one called Sigma_1 by the logicians, by Church Thesis they give the entire universal deployment. They have the form: there exists a number having that verifiable property). "Vehiculate by or through' is the passive of "supervene on". In french a "vehicul" is a generalisation of a car. A car is a thermical self-moving metallical and engineered "vehicul". Consciousness does not need to be involved, really. No problem to say that a program is vehiculated by some machine, or that a bank account is vehiculated by some data storage. I mean those terms can be flexible, and all will have different sense according to the choice done between mechanism and naturalism, once their incompatibility is understood. Mechanism, if I am correct, leads to arithmetical supervenience. No problem if you suggest a better word. Bruno Marchal http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
