On 02 Apr 2013, at 15:38, Craig Weinberg wrote:
On Tuesday, April 2, 2013 4:44:45 AM UTC-4, Bruno Marchal wrote:
On 01 Apr 2013, at 17:23, Craig Weinberg wrote:
On Monday, April 1, 2013 6:12:48 AM UTC-4, Bruno Marchal wrote:
On 31 Mar 2013, at 21:54, Craig Weinberg wrote:
On Sunday, March 31, 2013 10:59:22 AM UTC-4, Bruno Marchal wrote:
On 30 Mar 2013, at 14:19, Craig Weinberg wrote:
If, instead of a video screen and joystick, I had an arcade game
fitted with a speaker and microphone, I could have another
computer programmed to play PacMan on the first machine using only
modem-like screeching to satisfy the logic of the PacMan game.
Instead of graphic ghosts and visible maze, there would be
squealing sound representing what would have been the pixels on a
screen. There would be no difference for this equipment at all. As
long as the representation was isomorphic, it would make no
difference to either computer that there was no visual experience
of PacMan at all but instead just one dimensional noise streaming
back and forth between two machines.
If you want me to believe that a machine could support an
experience, then you have to explain why and how that is even a
remote possibility without begging the question by smuggling in
our own experience. If I do not agree that we are only machines,
then I do not agree that our experience is evidence of machine
experience.
I have never said it is an evidence. It is just by definition of
comp, which is my working hypothesis. You are the one saying that
comp is false.
That means that from the start, the only way to suggest that
machines can't be conscious is to suggest that people can't be
conscious,
This does not follow from what I said. All I say is that you make a
stroing statement: machines cannot support thinking, but you don't
provide any argument, at least none that I can understand. You refer
to your experience, and indeed vindicate the right to do that in
some post.
The argument that I have provided (repeatedly) is that machines are
necessarily assembled as a configuration of forms in space according
to an agenda or motivation which is foreign to the assembly. A
living organism is not assembled but rather its growth and
reproduction are autopoietic and native to the circumstance of its
initiation as an event in time. My position is that all natural
bodies are a reflection of some set of sensory-motor experiences on
some level of description (speed, scale) and that forms and
functions are driven by sense and motive. Artificial systems are not
biological bodies since they are assembled rather than reproduced
from a single cell, therefore the quality of the sense experiences
are limited to the inorganic range of quality. They lack the
experience of caring about their own survival, and consequently have
no capacity for empathy, warmth, understanding, or emotion, which
are, IMO the roots of intelligence which cannot be substituted by
abstract rules.
I tend to agree with you, insofar as it looks like what the machines
already tell me. You are good in phenomenology, but bad in logic, and
it is sad, because it prevents you to appreciate that the machines
might agree with you, somehow. But now you will have to convince those
machines that they are machines, and some of them, like you, will have
some serious difficulty to swallow the pill.
Comp share this with the Gödelian sentence: it asserts at some level
its own non believability. The more you understand comp, the less you
can believe in it. It is normal.
which would be sophistry. I'm not playing that game though. My
interest is in understanding the nature of consciousness and its
relation to physics and information. What I have come up with
explains exactly why machine functions cannot be conflated with
experience, and why presentations cannot arise from representations
alone.
If a machine works without an experience, why invent any such
thing as experience?
If you accept the antic theory of knowledge, then machines, once
above the Löbian complexity threshold, cannot not have experience.
What's the antic theory of knowledge?
That "knowing p -> p", "knowing p -> knowing knowing p", that
"knowing (p -> q) -> knowing p -> knowing q. . the modus ponens
rule, and the necessitation rule from A infer knowing A. It the
modal logic known as S4.
What relates this to a complexity threshold and the possibility of
experience?
It is a bit technical, but in a nutshell, it means that such machines
can refute Socrates' refutation of Theaetetus proposal to define
knowledge by the true opinion.
Church's thesis rehabilitates Pythagoras, and Gödel's incompleteness
rehabilitates the Theaetetus theory of knowledge, and this by giving
the classical theory of knowledge, with one axiom more, to be precise.
I tried to look it up but nobody on the internet seems to have ever
mentioned it in the history of the world.
The internet is not God. You might have to go to some good library.
You might serach on "modal S4".
Ok. I found some modal logic pages with S4.
OK. The Löbian theory of knowledge is S4 + Grz (Grz = [] ([] (p->
[]p) -> p) -> p, a weird formula which can lead to antisymmetrical
evolution of knowledge states).
I don't see what complexity has to do with the possibility of
experience - quality of experience, sure, but possibility?
The complexity treshold is the Löbian treshold. It is rather low. It
gives a universal machine the ability to know, in some weak sense,
that she is universal. It is responsible for mal-king the machine
beliefs and knowledge to be introspective enough and verify []p ->
[] [] p. Like in the knowledge theory above.
Why would that be an experience?
That was not experience. Only sharable beliefs. the experience is when
the belief is acknowledge by God, if you want. When the belief happens
to be true, or related to truth in some way.
When a toilet float turns off the flow of water by pulling a lever,
does that mean the toilet as a whole is having a conscious experience?
Plausibly not as a toilet float mechanism lacks the ability to
represent itself, and so there is no room for making relatively true
some self-referential fixed point. You need at least universality for
that, and more for self-consciousness.
Now, universality is very cheap, and it might be that your toilet
float is universal when seen in some way, but then its consciousness
might be trivial, in the complete beatitude of the blissful ignorance,
and without the slightest awareness of its instinctive turning off the
flow of water. May be some atemporal and fuzzy reminiscence of the
ocean, brought by the water, who knows, but that is in arithmetic, and
the float toilet mechanism is in your mind, in the FPI sense.
If Donkey Kong works just as well without anyone seeing him, then
why have a modem sound either? Just connect the two machines
directly.
The pathetic fallacy is not a logical fallacy.
No, it's more important than logic.
I think the pathetic fallacy is, as a fallacy, itself a pathetic
fallacy. From which I can't conclude.
I understand that is your position, but I think that is a
radically theoretical view which doesn't apply to the universe in
which we actually live. In this universe, not everything that can
be programmed to smile on command has emotions.
We cannot program emotion. We can program "help yourself, or
multiply yourself". Emotion have simple roots, but get quickly
highly entangled in a non predictible way with the intensional
variant of self-reference when emerging in long story.
Can't something help or multiply itself without emotion?
When the resources are limited, emotion and conflicts might appear.
From where?
Locally. Most animals becomes aggressive when they lack rooms.
Emotions might appear when the universal instinctive goal (multiply)
is jeopardized by the local situation.
Why would they? What would be the function of emotions?
To decide quickly in human complex situation involving complex
attraction and repulsion, playing at different levels, with internal
and external conflicts.
To motivate the running in front of the predator, and the food
forecasting.
You just say that you believe that comp is false, but machines
have naturally that belief, as comp is provably counter-intuitive.
That's just comp feeding back on its own confirmation bias. Comp
is a machine which can only see itself. It's the inevitable
inversion meme which arises from mistaking forms and functions
for reality rather than the capacity to project and receive them.
Yes, comp feedback in this way. You don't like that, apparently,
but that's not an argument. I am not defending comp, I am just
criticizing the reason you provide to think that comp is false.
I have repeatedly provided a whole list of reasons but your
criticism is not really offering any criticism other than that you
don't think my view has any merit.
On the contrary. I do see merit in some serious non-comp theory. I
am criticizing only your philosophy/opinion, and non valid defense
of it, that it is obvious that machines cannot support persons.
I don't think that it is obvious that machines cannot support
persons. To understand why they won't requires a deep understanding
of privacy as a qualitative enrichment through experience and a
willingness to see persons as sensory-motor participants rather
than Doxastic functions.
That is not an argument.
Is that an argument?
No. It is an observation.
You don't explain why though.
I am the one asking "why". You are saying that a theory is wrong,
and I just show that your reasoning is non valid.
You don't show that my reasoning is non valid,
I did, and Stathis tries too, but your approach is too fuzzy, so you
can answer all points, but when we try to see the point, it begs the
question and relies on the idea that we are not machine. When we
show to you that you get zombie, you never answer.
I *always* answer. The notion of zombies is a misinterpretation of
what might ordinarily be called a puppet or a pretender.
No a puppet pretends nothing. The man who manipulate the puppet might
pretend something, but not the puppet.
To be a pretender ypou already need to be conscious. A zombie cannot
be a pretender.
These are everywhere, I hope you would agree. From patterns of color
that we take for faces of actors on TV, film, or photo, to voice
mail systems, to scarecrows...
We have stop to believe that statue are alive, though. But in the case
of machines, it is different, as the biology described Turing emulable
mechanism, and physics too, and computer science shows that little
programs can eat their own tail, and develop complex relation with
itself, which is not done by puppet, voice mail system, nor movies, etc.
the effectiveness of a simulation depends on the sensitivity of the
audience. It is about perceptual relativity and has nothing to do
with the actual presence of a subjective experience.
OK. But that is true for man, machines and any possible aliens alike.
False cops in wood will progress. There will be quasi-zombies, but
there will have very mlimited range of mimics, and will be quite
different from program reflecting themselves coherently through long
histories, and which have those fixed points or not, as only truth
know and we have to be cautious on that.
I have given numerous examples, such as the lack of recovered
personal memories from the 1940s by contemporary Elvis impersonators.
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These do not beg the question, and they do not rely on the idea that
we are not machines, they support and inspire the idea that we are
not machines.
Supporty and inspire? That's look like propaganda.
You just say that they are puppet, like if that change of name would
invalidate the argument.
Then you don't understand the significance of the name change. The
name zombie refers to a living being whose consciousness is absent.
This is quite ordinary in sleepwalking people and blindsight shows
that we can also have zombie vision.
I dont believe in zombie vision. Those are case of dissociation.
Likewize, I don't believe in unconscious sleepwalking people. They are
in a quite altered state of consciousness, hard to rememeber, but "non
consciousness" might be non sensical, with comp. It can't be a first
person experience. It is always a relative judgement from outside.
The p-zombie is a problem because it takes for granted the premise
that consciousness is a function.
The contrary. It makes look like consciousness has no function, given
that the zombie acts exactly like if it was conscious, but is not.
To accept the existence of p-zombie makes consciousness even more
mysterious, as it makes it without any function.
With comp, consciousness has many important role, from exploiting free
will, accelerate the self-independence from the universal neighbors,
scheduling the path from earth to heaven, developing relative
responsibility, etc.
That is an unrecoverable error and it explains the appearance of the
paradox. Asking about a p-zombie is effectively asking 'what happens
when a function is not itself?' Since consciousness is not a
function, but rather the ground of being and the source of all
functions, there is no absence of consciousness, only changes of
scale and depth of aesthetic quality.
I can agree with that. But you insist that the degree might depend on
the nature of our parts, and I don't see why.
you just say, correclty that I won't subscribe to comp's own
criteria of validation.
That does not really exist. There are criteria of refutation, but
there is no experimental validation. Just local confirmation, which
are simply absence of refutation.
How convenient for comp.
Come on. That's the case for "all" theories. Even the theory according
to which you have parents. Science can only make hypothesis, and we
progress when shown false.
The rest is war and violence, from people using the old trick to
exploit the others, which has play some role in our history, but which
we try to escape, with civilization (= open mind on different
hypothesis/belief/axiom/opinion).
You assume that I am doing this because I am stubborn and ignorant
of the math...which I am both,
I never make assumption of that kind. I suspect some incompetence in
logic, but not that you are stubborn. Racist, perhaps, but stubborn?
I am no more of a sensory-motor supremacist than you are an
arithmetic supremacist. Your accusation of racist is hypocrisy.
No, it is factual. It just that you like me, so you are kind enough to
give steak to my sun in law, but you despise him so much, just because
of what I take as different clothe (a silicon brain).
but that isn't why I reject comp's criteria of validation. I reject
comp's validation because *I can*, and because I can it means that
my non-comp approach is superior at modeling the limits of comp
than comp is of modeling its own limits.
The whole technical point is that machine are very good to guess
their own limitations. Again, you just affirm you are superior, but
that is not an argument.
If I have the ability to disregard arithmetic truth, but a machine
does not, then I am superior in that regard.
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Be careful. Look at this ( about 47 minutes) to get what we can get
when disregarding arithmetic.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8w5LqlTwbhs
Gosh, I can no more see it in my country!
I can *feel* the difference
You can feel private things. You cannot feel what another entity
feel or not.
If you can claim to know what I can or cannot feel, then you claim
to be able to do precisely what you insist I cannot do.
Lol.
Of course I use comp, but if you can feel that some other cannot feel,
then you assert non-comp in a very strong way. You say that you don"t
need to assume non-comp, as you know it to be true. Sorry but this is
pseudo-science and pseudo-religion.
and see the difference aesthetically, while comp can only poke and
prod around in the dark, making statistical bets - using no
intuition, no instinct, no sense of value or appropriateness, no
empathy or nuance. Comp is autism.
Is not non-comp autism with respect to machines?
Sure. Which should be an indicator that the overlap between sentient
being and machine is narrow.
Of course, but only by your pretension.
It only shows that it is hard for a person to believe she is
locally supported by a machine. But "hard to believe" is not an
argument.
If a sighted person sees what a blind person does not, then the
sighted person will find it hard to believe that the blind person's
view of reality is complete. The fact of it being hard to believe
is not the argument, but a symptom of the inability of the blind
person to even participate in the argument. For the blind person,
there is no argument. Sight is simply the ability to detect the
locations of various objects in your environment, by touch, by
echolocation, by smell, etc. How does the sighted person argue
against the blind? What contradiction in their blindness can she
show?
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I wrote a post...
http://multisenserealism.com/2013/04/01/but-which-eye-is-the-binocular-one/
There is no specific challenge to all of the things I mentioned. I
say pathetic fallacy, you say you don't respect it. I say the Map
is not the Territory and the Menu is not the Meal but you don't
seem to accept that these are comprehensible ideas.
They just comfort opinion, without making a point.
Isn't that what you are doing when you say that? These things make
clear, common sense points as far as I can tell. How does your
assertion that they don't change that? To say the map is not the
territory is quite precise and profound. The point is to provide an
obvious example for why we cannot assume representations
automatically imply presentations, and vice versa. How is that not
a point? It is an observation about the ontology of perception and
physics which seems to be universally true, but is completely
ignored and denied in comp.
Where and why would perception be ignored by comp? It is not.
Can you support that?
Google on artificial smell, automated vision, robotics, etc.
All seems to evaporate into a smoke screen and impatience. You
don't take the argument seriously and always fall back on my
ignorance of mathematical theory. My arguments question the
foundation of math itself though.
That makes your point even weaker. It is up to you to either
abandon your strong assertion that comp is false. You can study non-
comp without it. I respect and encourage alternative to comp. But
you says that comp is false, and just explain why you believe so,
without showing a contradiction in comp.
Why I understand comp is false is precisely because I see that it
can only reflect on its own truths and has no independent access to
what is present. It is an echo chamber, and all logic is
ultimately circular, having no access to the thinker themselves.
Logic is the deferment of personal feeling, so it can never make
sense of the very feelings which inspire logical intent to begin
with.
You ignore self-reference theory, the 3p and the 1p. The logic is
circular, but the circles can be shown explicitly not being "vicious".
It still cannot transcend logic into feeling, sensation, or
presentation of any kind.
On the contrary, it cannot avoid it.
I have no tricks or invalid arguments that I know of, and I
don't see that I am being careless at all.
Which means probably that you should learn a bit of
argumentation, to be frank. Or just assume your theory and be
cautious on the theory of other people.
I'm only interested in uncovering the truth about consciousness.
What other people think and do is none of my business.
You are asserting without argument that a theory is incorrect,
I have been asserting my arguments in writing for thousands of
hours. Why do you say that it is without argument unless it is
simply too awful to accept that there is no valid counter-argument?
I have not seen argument which does not invoke wishful thinking,
or begging of the question.
For example?
Just read what you wrote above.
I don't see any wishful thinking or begging of the question. Maybe
unsupported innuendo, but that's an intentional provocation.
That does not help.
Neither does 'Just read what you wrote above. '
If you find a real argument against comp, publish it, and you will
become famous. But in the literature, all arguments against comp
(like Lucas and Penrose for example) have been debunked.
You can't debunk comp using mathematical theory, you have to
reason from the perceptual experience.
This is equivalent with "God phoned me and told me that comp is
false". That might be true, but is not an argument.
Not at all. If you are underwater, you are limited to tools which
can be used underwater. Math floats on the surface of the water of
feeling and builds structures in the air, but it cannot get beneath
itself...which is what Gödel showed, but apparently not in your view.
Gödel shows on the contrary that the incompleteness can be proved by
or in the theory itself.
But what it proves is that provability is incomplete.
But it proves that the machines can prove that, and that they becomes
transfinitely-complete-able on expanding creative path, and they can
even come back.
Math can spread out on the surface of the world's ocean, and it can
infer many things from the motions on the surface, make
predictions, predict the weather, etc, but the depths of the ocean
will always be inaccessible to it.
That's correct, and has already been proved by machines, when
looking inward.
Ok. So would you say that the surface is the top of the water or
that the water is a collection of merged surfaces?
I don't see whay I would say that. The ocean was an image. The
problem, but also the richness, of comp, is that there are infinitely
many infinite abysses. It is big and complex.
As far as I'm concerned, it is comp that has to argue against its
own presentation problems.
Comp, like tuns of theories, has many problems. Having a problem is
more a symptom of being interesting than being false.
If having major problems is not a symptom of being false,
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then what could be?
Getting a contradiction.
Isn't a contradiction a major problem?
A fatal one, sure. But getting a formulable non solved problem is on
the contrary a mark that there is something interesting.
It may not be proof that a theory is false, but having problems is
certainly a symptom of a false theory.
Not at all. It is a symptom of being refutable, interesting,
improvable, enrich-able, etc.
A cough is a symptom of both a cold and tuberculosis. Not all coughs
mean tuberculosis but all tuberculosis could be potentially
identified by a cough. How else can a theory be false?
A tuberculosis can be inferred from a cough, and then from further
analysis, which refute or confirm, but never prove. We never prove
anything about reality. Nature or reality only refutes.
and you do this by assuming that it cannot do this or that, but
with no argument that your personal feeling.
Why are common sense observations shared by all people since the
beginning of humanity reduced to 'my personal feeling', but
esoteric works of mathematics from the last couple of centuries
are are infallible?
They are not infallible, and personal feeling are not argument.
Why aren't personal feelings an argument when the subject is the
ability of persons and feelings to exist?
Because they are personal, and quite variate among different
people. That is why we make theories, and reason hypothetico-
deductively, and keeping in mind that any theory can be false.
That they are variable is a characteristic of personality itself.
If you make depersonalized theories then you can only trace a
universal outline which is the underlap of all personhood, i.e. the
universal unperson = comp.
Or the universal person.
No, that's what I'm saying, that is a misunderstanding of the
ontology of private physics. Personhood is inseparable from
proprietary uniqueness. They are the same physical phenomenon. The
universal person is dehydrated water.
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Don't you see that you are a priori disqualifying the very thing
that you think you are explaining? There can be no theory which
becomes an experience and Comp is a theory about theories.
Comp is a theological theory assuming that machine can vehiculate
immaterial, and even partially non mechanical experience. Computer
science gives the room for it, and this is enough to refute your
point, independently of the truth or falsity of comp.
What does it mean for a machine to vehiculate? Look at how graphic
animation works. There is no movement. There is only rapid (to our
visual sense) cycling of pixels flashing on and off. Like the
marquee effect, where blinking lights seem to be moving in some
direction to us but the instruction to the video screen does
nothing but blink stationary lights in a particular pattern. Why
move a if you can teleport?
Indeed. With comp, movement and the whole of physics are reduced to
arithmetical teleportation, through the FPI. Indeed.
Ok, so that is something unexplained for comp for it to find some
sorely needed self doubt.
? the comp machine does self-doubt, that ius why I insist that it is
an hypothesis, and that it asks for an act of faith. You are the one
asserting some "truth", instead of assumption.
I just explain to you that machines might have already that
feeling, as it looks like when we listen to them.
I understand that, but I'm saying that the whole idea that
machines might have any feeling at all is unsupported by anything
except the very theory which begs the question to begin with.
Assuming is not begging. If you assume non-comp it is all right.
But you pretend to have an argument against comp, so it is normal
we ask it too you, and well, we don't really see an argument.
To be sure, machines cannot think, and the expression "machine can
think" is a short cut for "machine can support a person with
respect to some environment".
I don't assume non-comp, like Deleuze, I reason that comp is
representation, and representation can neither receive nor
mobilize anything on its own.
That's non-comp. The question is why a person can't neither receive
and mobilize things on its own, when represented at or below some
representation level.
That begs the question of personhood as computation though. It
presumes our personal awareness is a function of impersonal, 3p
dynamics of information processing. A person is not that though. A
person is an experience which includes sub-personal and super-
personal contexts, but it is a sensory-motor system from top to
bottom.
Comp explains the difference between the impersonal 3p and the
personal 1p.
I don't doubt that. I can explain the differences between a Michelin
three star restaurant and McDonalds but that doesn't make me a
gourmet chef. Comp can be used to find a functional skeleton of the
universal-personal symmetry but it can only do so from the universal
reductive perspective.
You are the reductionist. You are the soul eliminativist for the
machines and the humans with artificial brain.
The comp people are those who will give the right to vote to some
future machines. The right to marry a machine, etc.
Experience can inform, but that is not the primary function of
experience. The primary function of qualia is not a function at
all, it is just appreciation of aesthetic presence. It is because
we are present as sense-motor participants in a public context of
the same that we must receive and mobilize public interactions.
Representations have no such participation.
If qualia and consciousness have no function, how can they
participate? How can experience be fundamental. You contradict your
own theory.
They participate because they make up the cosmos.
OK.
They are participation itself. Experience is fundamental because
"How" is a question which arises through experience. I don't
contradict my own theory at all.
I was asking how, indeed, but you don't answer.
That's why we can think about eating a baby without actually
hurting any babies. That's why we can erase a character in a
virtual world without anyone in that world mourning the loss. It's
hard even to articulate examples of this because it is so pervasive
and plainly obvious.
Nothing is plainly obvious around the mind-body problem.
It's pretty obvious that there is a difference between a person and
a picture of a person.
OK.
It's pretty obvious that if you photoshop someone out of an image
that the other people in the image don't miss them.
OK.
But none of those analogies shows that it ios pretty obvious that a
machine can't develop her own conscious privacy.
You argument looks like "machines cannot think, just look at my fridge".
It like, "organic animals cannot walk on the moon, look at the
amoebas!".
Any example you can give me of a representation I can show you how
it doesn't mobilize or receive anything. No computation occurs in a
vacuum, of its own intention, it must always be a reflection or
projection within some genuine presentation of material objects or
subjective experiences.
Why?
Because computation is not an independent phenomenon, it is a
particular protocol of sense so that it can only ride on the back of
something which has sensory experience.
Excellent. That is indeed a non trivial consequence of comp, correct
for the *physical* computations.
Computations in general are just arithmetical relations, and are
supposed with elementary arithmetic at the start.
Why would machines feel anything? "Well, lets assume that we are
machines, and therefore whatever we do is something that a
machine can do, including feel." Or, we could assume that we are
ears of corn, and therefore whatever we do is something that an
ear of corn can do if it was coaxed into becoming as complex a
vegetable as we are. We could decide that we are a TV show, and
that TV shows will someday evolve into us, so that the shows we
see now are just baby shows where the characters haven't grown
very realistic yet.
You are correct. If we assume that we are angels, then we can
conclude that angels can feel. But nowhere I have attempted to
prove that machine can feel. It is my working assumption, and I am
interested in its fundamental consequence. But *you* pretend that
comp is necessary wrong, so we wait for the argument. Not a
personal feeling.
I don't pretend comp is wrong, I reason that it cannot be right.
That reasoning is missing. You always end up refering to your
opinion or experience. That explain why you assume non-comp, not
why we should assume it.
I invite others to use their reason also.
The arguments have been listed several times but they boil down to
the presentation problem. Computation has no need for any kind of
sensory-motor presentation.
Why?
Because it has data instead.
They comes from the sum on infinities of computations.
Why? Why would a sum of computations begin to itch or get dizzy?
I don't know, you tell me why not, as you are the one who says that
this is impossible. You must justify your assertion. I assert nothing,
as I assume comp only.
It has no capability to bring any presentation into being.
Why?
Because if it did, we wouldn't need need any hardware. Our
experience is that a stop sign doesn't make anything stop unless
that thing cares about its interpretation of that sign.
I do not use some particular personal feeling as evidence against
comp, but the unquestionable variety of aesthetic modalities that
we experience make no sense as a compression algorithm.
There are infinitely many other algorithms.
Ok, but why would any algorithm have any particular aesthetic
modality?
Why not?
Because it doesn't need one
How do you know that?
and it can't generate one.
Why?
If it could, you would not need a sound card or a video screen, you
could just feel data directly.
That is what happen with the brain, but universal machines want more
and they have to handle the new data with hands or machines.
Again, my PacMan example. I can play PacMan on one computer, and
have the data from the game sent over a fast modem as screeching
noises to another computer, which will be able to play the game just
as well. I won't be able to play at all without the video graphics
though.
Nor the other computer, unless you help him to handle the noise, or
give him the time to learn or something.
The whole point of universal machines is their universality - what
would be the point of converting data into sensations and then
back into data?
Communication and action relatively to a probable world.
Why is the world different from a data set?
?
If the world is a simulation, then why isn't it an invisible,
intangible data set?
Are dreams invisible intangible data sets?
I am a logician. I defend more the use of valid reasoning than the
truth of any proposition, including comp.
Let me give you a good argument against comp. It does look obvious
that there is primitive fundamental physical reality. But with
comp that cannot exist in any reasonable sense by the UDA
argument, so comp is wrong.
That's not a good argument to me, it's the straw man you keep in
stock. I can easily see how memory could naturally acquire the
kinds of characteristics which we consider physical - fixed
positions, reliable connections, efficiently organized forms, etc.
That is not a problem for me, and I have no problem understanding
that functions in time map to topologies in space.
Nice.
Thanks.
The elephant in comp's room is this: Presentation. Sensory-motor
participation. Experience. This will never be explained by any
theory.
In a 100% way? You are right. But this does not add a iota to the
idea that it is false.
If the theory asserts that experience can be explained by something
other than experience, then I think it does mean that theory is
ultimately false.
This explains why you don't study the theory.
I tried. And I appreciate the phenomenology, but you waste it by
wanting to be not a theory, but a sort of communicable religious
conviction against another theory.
It is sad, for your theory. Not just my sun in law.
Only a theory which begins and ends with experience can explain
the universe.
Why?
Because experience isn't a plausible outcome of unexperienced forms
or functions. Functions can lead to functions, but they need no
forms or experience. Forms can imply forms which could lead to
functions but again, no experience would be involved.
"Functions" is ambiguous. They can be defined extensionnally (set of
input-output) or intensionally with programs and machines. That
leads to different mathematics, and for intensional functions, the
evidence is that they develop private truth, experience, etc. Indeed
a whole theology, including their physics.
The same evidence also would show that they have no experience but
are able to simulate it when programmed by someone with that
expectation.
That is true for any of us. It is your acceptance of zombie.
Of course the weakness of that argument is that there is no
evidence for a *primitively* physical reality. There are only
evidences for a physical reality. And here comp explains where
such evidences comes from.
So you will have to try harder.
Or just develop your theory, keeping some agnosticism about the
fact that your theory might contradict or not some other theories.
May be you will find a valid contradiction by working in that way,
in comp or in your theory. If not you look like a philosopher
having some prejudice against some entities a priori.
Again, I only care about explaining consciousness.
It seems to me that if you start from experience, then you take
consciousness for granted.
It seems to me that if you start from anywhere else, you still take
consciousness for granted,
But I do that explicitly, with the definition of comp. Then I listen
to the machine about that question.
So we both take consciousness for granted. What does comp explain
then?
Theology including physics, and 99% of consciousness, and this from
elementary arithmetic (+ "yes doctor" and Church's thesis).
Bruno
http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/
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