On Sep 14, 1:33 am, meekerdb <meeke...@verizon.net> wrote: > > Your presumption is that the scripted computation would not instantiate > feeling. If the > scripted computation include input from the world and action in the world > (which is what I > think you call "sensor" and "motive") then it would instantiate feeling. > What is > radically overconfident is your assumption that feeling can only be > instantiated by > organic compounds, neurons, brains or some other human component (you're > never really > clear about which). >
No, I just don't think that it wouldn't instantiate human feeling, and that there is a difference in what a human being is capable of feeling and what a silicon chip is likely to be able to feel. There is definitely sensor and motive phenomena in the semiconductor, but it is in no way isomorphic to our projections about the logic of the script. I don't presume that my TV set watches TV with me just because it is receiving the same electronic pattern as me. It's not that there is some special component that makes something human, just as there is no one special ingredient that makes the Taj Mahal different from a pile of bricks. I'm just pointing out that if you can't necessarily expect to build something on a monumental scale like that out of sticks of butter. Substance matters in some cases, and we have no idea what those cases are for human consciousness. Craig -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en.
