My point is not that a snapshot brain (or computer) state lacks content, but that if it is
an emulation of a brain (or a real brain) the snapshot cannot be an observer moment or a
thought. The latter must have much longer duration and overlap one another in time. I
think there has been a casual, but wrong, implicit identification of the discrete states
of a Turing machine emulating a brain with some rather loosely defined "observer
moments". That's why I thought Eagleman's talk was interesting.
Brent
On 10/3/2011 8:01 AM, [email protected] wrote:
I can't answer for Brent, but my take in this is that what matters is whether the state
of the system at any time represents a computation being performed. So, this whole
"duration
requirment" is not necessary, a snapshot of the system contains information about what
program is being run. So, it is a mistake to think that OMs lack content and are
therefore not computational states.
Saibal
Citeren Stathis Papaioannou <[email protected]>:
On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 9:47 AM, meekerdb <[email protected]> wrote:
But this doesn't
change the argument that, to the extent that the physics allows it,
the machine states may be arbitrarily divided. It then becomes a
matter of definition whether we say the conscious states can also be
arbitrarily divided. If stream of consciousness A-B-C supervenes on
machine state a-b-c where A-B, B-C, A-B-C, but not A, B or C alone are
of sufficient duration to count as consciousness should we say the
observer moments are A-B, B-C and A-B-C, or should we say that the
observer moments are A, B, C? I think it's simpler to say that the
atomic observer moments are A, B, C even though individually they lack
content.
I think we've discussed this before. It you define them as A, B, C then the
lack of content means they don't have inherent order; where as AB, BC,
CD,... do have inherent order because they overlap. I don't think this
affects the argument except to note that OMs are not the same as
computational states.
Do you think that if you insert pauses between a, b and c so that
there is no overlap you create a zombie?
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