On 16 Oct 2012, at 15:00, Stephen P. King wrote:
On 10/16/2012 8:23 AM, Craig Weinberg wrote:
On Tuesday, October 16, 2012 4:02:44 AM UTC-4, stathisp wrote:
There is of course the idea that the universe is actually a
simulation but that is more controversial.
A tempting idea until we question what it is a simulation of?
We can close this by considering when is a simulation of a "real
thing" indistinguishable from the "real thing"!
What law states that computations exist ab initio, but the capacity
to experience and participate in a simulated world does not?
Good point! Why not both existing ab initio?
But they exists ab initio in the arithmetical truth. So with comp, we
can postulate only the numbers, or the computations (they are
ontologically equivalent), then consciousness is semantical fixed
point, existing for arithmetical reason, yet not describable in direct
arithmetical term (like truth, by Tarski, or knowledge by Scott-
Montague. The Theaetetical "Bp & p" is very appealing in that setting,
as it is not arithmetically definable, yet makes sense in purely
arithmetical term for each p in the language of the machine
(arithmetic, say).
So we don't have to postulate consciousness to explain why machine
will correctly believe in, and develop discourse about, some truth
that they can know, and that they can also know them to be non
justifiable, non sharable, and possibly invariant for digital self-
transformation, etc.
Bruno
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Onward!
Stephen
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