On 29 December 2013 00:26, Bruno Marchal <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 28 Dec 2013, at 03:53, Jason Resch wrote: > > > > >> Would any "universal number do"? >> > > That is what Bruno speculatively has suggested. I am not so sure. > Sometimes I think an "if-then-else-statement" contains all that is > fundamentally required for consciousness, or at least, to be an atom of > consciousness. > > > As the base of the UD, any universal numbers will do. That is why I can > chose arithmetic or combinators etc. > For raw consciousness, I am prety sure that universality is already too > much, now just "if then else" might be not enough, I don't know, and I > don't thinks it is important. I will not found a society to protect the > private life of thermostat. I think. >
Fair dos for thermostats! Like us, they have their ups and downs... (Or is that thermometers?) -- 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.

