On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 10:51 AM, Craig Weinberg <[email protected]> wrote:

> Since we know that our consciousness is exquisitely sensitive to particular
> masses of specific chemicals, yet relatively tolerant of other kinds of
> chemical changes, it suggests that we should strongly suspect that COMP is a
> fantasy.

That proves nothing. Any machine will be sensitive to small physical
changes of one kind and tolerant of other changes. If you introduce a
little bit of saline into the brain nothing will happen, if you
introduce inside an integrated circuit it will destroy it.


-- 
Stathis Papaioannou

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