On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 5:47 AM, Bruno Marchal <marc...@ulb.ac.be> wrote: > When we are dreaming we are in a higher level relative > emulation (all UMs can do that).
That's confusing. I find it hard to believe a bacteria can dream. The UM implemented by a bacteria could *potentially* run any program, but it is *actually* running the bacteria program. To suggest that bacteria (e.g. one of the class of "all UMs") can dream by virtue of being definable as a UM generates more confusion than clarity. Put another way, if a particularly instantiated UM possesses the ability to dream (to imagine), then that says something non-trivial about the constitution of that UM's cognitive architecture. Terren -- 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.
