2012/1/31 Craig Weinberg <[email protected]> > On Jan 31, 2:52 pm, Terren Suydam <[email protected]> wrote: > > Craig, > > > > The movie The Matrix is essentially about comp. What is it about that > > movie's premise that seems impossible to you? > > It's possible to simulate a world for a person but it is not possible > to simulate the sense of being a person. I have no problem with full > sensory substitution, but I understand that there cannot be a > replacement for sense itself. Something real and physical ultimately > has to interpret anything to give it sense, otherwise it is non-sense. > A program is real in a mind, and real in software, but unless the > software is enacted literally on a physical machine or organism at the > bottom level, there is no reality. >
How do you know there is a bottom level ? Reality did told you so ? That in your theory you posit a bottom level why not... but here you know it, so is it too much to ask you how you know so ? Why a human is able to "interpret" himself and a program couldn't ? Where does sense come from in you theory ? How meaning arises ? Why something ? Quentin > > -- > 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. > > -- All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. -- 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.
