On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 06:21:12PM -0700, Craig Weinberg wrote: > The main problem with comp that I see is the presentation problem. > Computation requires no sights, sounds, smells, flavors, feelings, etc, not > does it make sense that any of these could be intentionally or accidentally > generated by computation alone. Comp does not seem to refer to the universe > in which we actually reside, only a theoretical non-verse of arithmetic > relations. Computation and counting are useful specifically because they > lack any physical bodies or proprietary characteristic - numbers apply > figuratively to anything because they apply literally to nothing. >
This is also true of materialism. Whether you think this is a problem or not depends on whether you think the "hard problem" is a problem or not. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Professor of Mathematics [email protected] University of New South Wales http://www.hpcoders.com.au ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
