A great book (fiction) for wrapping your head around the weirder consequences of comp is Greg Egan's Permutation City.
Terren On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 4:57 PM, Bruno Marchal <[email protected]> wrote: >> okay, let me see if I can try, If I have an affinity for it, If i find it >> not boring, dry, trivial, far-fetched etc. >> >> so you are saying I can just read your paper without a extensive >> background in math and cog-sci and comp-sci and physics and symbolic logic >> etc.? Is your paper what you are referring me to research or something >> else, like some other papers, articles, books or somehting? > > Jason referred to Tegmark, but Tegmark is naive on math and still very > physicalist. In particular he uses the identity mind-brain. sane04 leads > quickly to the understanding that such an identity cannot work. Yes, I am > biased of course, but I think the sane04 paper is a shortcut. But the > reading of Mind's I should help. And for the long run with Gödel, > Hofstadter's book is rather good (but long). > Hmm ... I have many nice books, but today books are quickly out-of-print. I > will think. > > 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. > > -- 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.
