On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 12:39:32AM -0700, freqflyer07281972 wrote: > Dear Russell, > > Back in 2012, you made the following claims regarding my general attack on > Bruno's > "mathematical reductionism": > > 1) Self-awareness is a requirement for consciousness > > 2) We expect to find ourselves in an environment sufficiently rich and > complex to support self-aware structures (by Anthropic Principle), but > not more complex than necessary (Occams Razor). Sort of like > Einstein's principle "As simple as possible, and no simpler." > > 3) The simplest environment generating a given level of complexity is > one that has arisen as a result of evolution from a much simpler > initial state. This is the evolution in the multiverse observation, > that evolution is the only creative (or information generating) > process. > > 4) Evolutionary processes work with populations, so automatically, > you must have other self-aware entities in your world, and > consequently inter-subjectivity. > > > My question to you, as basic as it might seem, is... have you changed your > mind about any of these presuppositions? > > Yours forever in the multiverse, > Dan >
In answer to your question, no I haven't changed my mind about any of those. 1) is not a presupposition though, but a conclusion. Cheers -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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.
