On Nov 19, 2008, at 1:43 PM, Brent Meeker wrote: > So I'm puzzled as to how answer Bruno's question. In general I > don't believe in > zombies, but that's in the same way I don't believe my glass of > water will > freeze at 20degC. It's an opinion about what is likely, not what is > possible.
I take this to mean that you're uncomfortable with thought experiments which revolve around logically possible but exceedingly unlikely events. I think that's understandable, but ultimately, I'm on the philosopher's side. It really is logically possible - although exceedingly unlikely - for a random-number-generator to cause a robot to walk around, talk to people, etc. It really is logically possible for a computer program to use a random-number-generator to generate a lattice of changing bits that "follows" Conway's Life rule. Mechanism and materialism needs to answer questions about these scenarios, regardless of how unlikely they are. -- Kory --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
