On Sun, Oct 20, 2013 at 09:43:09AM +0200, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > In fact I think (but not use!) that you have a conscious path > between any brain, and the empty brain (no brain!). > >
How can that be? There is no continuous path between a universal machine and a trivial machine - universality will be lost at a precise point of removing hardware. I think you've been overly influenced by the fading qualia argument, which I've always felt to be fallacious. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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.
