On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 4:09 AM, Bruno Marchal <[email protected]> wrote:
> I agree with Craig, although the way he presents it might seems a bit > uncomputationalist, (if I can say(*)). > > Thoughts act on matter all the time. It is a selection of histories + a > sharing. Like when a sculptor isolates an art form from a rock, and then > send it in a museum. If mind did not act on matter, we would not have been > able to fly to the moon, and I am not sure even birds could fly. It asks for > relative works and time, and numerous deep computations. > > When you prepare coffee, mind acts on matter. When you drink coffee, matter > acts on mind. No problem here (with comp). > > And we can learn to control computer at a distance, but there is no reason > to suppose that computers can't do that. Mind acts on matter in a manner of speaking, but matter will not do anything that cannot be explained in terms of the underlying physics. An alien scientist could give a complete description of why humans behave as they do and make a computational model that accurately simulates human behaviour while remaining ignorant about human consciousness. But the alien could not do this if he were ignorant about protein chemistry, for example. -- Stathis Papaioannou -- 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.
