https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_Drafts_Model
"Daniel Dennett's multiple drafts model of consciousness is a physicalist
theory of consciousness
based upon cognitivism, which views the mind in terms of information
processing. The theory is
described in depth in his book, Consciousness Explained, published in 1991.
As the title states, the book proposes a high-level explanation of
consciousness which is
consistent with support for the possibility of strong AI.
Dennett describes the theory as first-person operationalism. As he states it:
'The Multiple Drafts model makes [the procedure of] "writing it down" in
memory criterial for
consciousness: that is what it is for the "given" to be "taken" ...
There is no reality of conscious experience independent of the effects of
various vehicles of
content on subsequent action (and hence, of course, on memory).[1]' "
Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net
11/8/2012
"Forever is a long time, especially near the end." -Woody Allen
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From: Bruno Marchal
Receiver: everything-list
Time: 2012-11-08, 03:36:31
Subject: Re: Communicability
On 08 Nov 2012, at 01:38, Stephen P. King wrote:
> On 11/7/2012 12:44 PM, Bruno Marchal wrote:
>>
>> On 07 Nov 2012, at 17:13, Stephen P. King wrote:
>>
>>> On 11/7/2012 9:41 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote:
>>>> Arithmetic explains why they are observers and how and why they
>>>> make theories.
>>> Dear Bruno,
>>>
>>> This is a vacuous statement, IMHO. Absent the prior existence of
>>> entities capable of counting there is no such thing as Arithmetic.
>>> Your belief to the contrary cannot be falsified!
>>
>> In the same sense that "2+2=4" cannot be falsified.
> Dear Bruno,
>
> You are missing my message. "2+2=4" is universally true only
> because there does not exist a counter-example that can be agreed
> upon by 3 or more entities. You continue to only think from the
> point of view of a single entity. My reasoning asks questions from
> the point of view of many entities
But even with that criteria, your point will not go through, as it is
obvious that nobody will find any counterexample to the fact that
observer exists in arithmetic (assuming comp). In the same "sense"
that 2+2=4.
>
>>
>> It just mean that you have never grasp the proof of G?el's
>> incompleteness theorem, which does that, almost in passing. This is
>> proved in all good introduction text to logic.
>
> Ha! OK, but you are wrong.
If you stiudy and grasp by yourself G?el's prrof, you should see why
the prior existence of comp-counting entities is a theorem of
arithmetic, and have the same reality as 2+2=4. You would not have the
remark above.
>
>>
>> We can prove, in Peano arithmetic, that there exist entities
>> capable of counting.
>
> If we follow the orthodox interpretation of Tennenbaum theorem
> there can only be one entity that can count; the standard model of
> PA. I am thinking of the uncountable infinity of non-standard models
> of PA that have a condition imposed on them: each thinks that it
> alone is the standard model as it cannot know that it is non-
> standard. In this way we can get an infinity of standard models of
> PA instead of just one. I think that this gives us a modal logical
> form of general relativity!
>
>> By G?el's completeness those entities exists in the standard model
>> of arithmetic (arithmetical truth), and in all model, and thus
>> also in all non standard model.
>
> Yes, but each model must be able to truthfully believe that it
> alone is the standard model; it cannot see the constant that defines
> it as non-standard from inside itself.
It is confusing to use models for modeling thinking entities.
>
>>
>> So arithmetic assures the prior existence of entities capable of
>> counting.
>
> Sure.
Ah? But it is a key point that you seem to avoid in many of your post.
>
>>
>> You have the Matiyasevich's book. A (more complex) proof is given
>> there. It is more complex as it proves this for a much more tiny
>> fragment of arithmetic.
>
> It is impossible for me to write my ideas in Matiyasevich's
> language. :_(
I am not sure why. I have taught computer science to disabled people,
and unless severe disability, it is always possible to overcome any
technical limitations.
>
>
>>
>>
>>> Forgive me, but I need to let others explain my argument as I have
>>> run out of patience with my inability to form sentences that you
>>> will understand. This article (which I cannot asses completely due
>>> to the paywall) seems to make my claim well:
>>> http://www.springerlink.com/content/052422q295335527/
>>>
>>> Nomic Universals and Particular Causal Relations: Which are Basic
>>> and Which are Derived?
>>>
>>> "Armstrong holds that a law of nature is a certain sort of
>>> structural universal which, in turn, fixes causal relations
>>> between particular states of affairs. His claim that these nomic
>>> structural universals explain causal relations commits him to
>>> saying that such universals are irreducible, not supervenient upon
>>> the particular causal relations they fix. However, Armstrong also
>>> wants to avoid Plato? view that a universal can exist without
>>> being instantiated, a view which he regards as incompatible with
>>> naturalism. This construal of naturalism forces Armstrong to say
>>> that universals are abstractions from a certain class of
>>> particulars; they are abstractions from first-order states of
>>> affairs, to be more precise. It is here argued that these two
>>> tendencies in Armstrong cannot be reconciled: To say that
>>> universals are abstractions from first-order states of affairs is
>>> not compatible with saying that universals fix causal relations
>>> between particulars. Causal relations are themselves states of
>>> affairs of a sort, and Armstrong? claim that a law is a kind of
>>> structural universal is best understood as the view that any given
>>> law logically supervenes on its corresponding causal relations.
>>> The result is an inconsistency, Armstrong having to say that laws
>>> do not supervene on particular causal relations while also being
>>> committed to the view that they do so supervene. The inconsistency
>>> is perhaps best resolved by denying that universals are
>>> abstractions from states of affairs."
>>
>> I don't assume nature. And comp refutes naturalism, that's the point.
>
> You are thinking too literally about that I am writing. comp
> assumes Platonism, no?
No. Just arithmetical realism. Platonism is a consequence of comp.
Comp itself is neutral. It is just the belief that our brain can be
replaced by a computer (so we assume a Turing complete physical
reality, but tis agnostic on the precise nature of it (primitive or
not).
> Why can we not see Platonism and Naturalism as just opposite or
> "polar" views on Reality? Platonism looks Top-down and Naturalism
> looks from the bottom-up.
Because it violates the facts derived from comp. Nature or the
physical world is only a surface of a "non natural" (but arithmetical)
volume.
Bruno
http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/
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