On 20 Nov 2008, at 00:19, Telmo Menezes wrote:
> >> Could you alter the so-lucky cosmic explosion beam a little bit so >> that Alice still succeed her math exam, but is, reasonably enough, a >> zombie during the exam. With zombie taken in the traditional sense >> of >> Kory and Dennett. >> Of course you have to keep well *both* MECH *and* MAT. > > I think I can... > > Instead of correcting the brain, the cosmic beams trigger output > neurons in a sequence that makes Alice write the right answers. That > is to say, the information content of the beams is no longer a > representation of an area of Alice's brain, but a representation of > the answers to the exam. An outside observer cannot distinguish one > case from the other. In the first she is Alice, in the second she is a > zombie. Right. I guess you see that such a zombie is an accidental zombie. We will have to come back later on this "accidental" part. Bruno 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
