On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 12:10:29PM +0100, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > But I still fail to see what you mean by swapping two consciousness. > In this case we have that the consciousness of [Tommy and Samantha] > supervenes (weakly) on the physical activity in the classroom (to > change them, we have to change something physical in the classroom), > in the same manner than the consciousness of Bruno and Russell > supervenes on the (phsyical, here) execution of the UD. That is what > is used in the argument. > > Bruno >
We have two conscious states (Tommy and Samantha) that clearly differ. They both cannot supervene on the same physical state. That is by the definition of supervenience. Therefore they both cannot supervene on the same classroom. Perhaps the word swapping is misleading to you - I didn't mean anything particularly profound by it. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Professor of Mathematics hpco...@hpcoders.com.au University of New South Wales http://www.hpcoders.com.au ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- 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.
