Liz, Your comp is obviously not my comp. Don't tell me what my comp does or doesn't do...
Edgar On Thursday, January 9, 2014 9:38:47 PM UTC-5, Liz R wrote: > > On 10 January 2014 15:34, Edgar L. Owen <[email protected] <javascript:>>wrote: > >> Liz, >> >> No, that's not the only way to falsify it. One merely needs to show it >> doesn't properly describe reality as I've just done. If you even assume a >> computational universe in the first place you have to assume (you are >> assuming) that it computes reality. The fact that reality exists is >> conclusive proof. >> >> That doesn't work for comp, however, which doesn't assume a computational > universe. The assumptions it makes are a lot simpler than that. I believe > they are > > The Church-Turing thesis > Elementary arithmetic > That consciousness is a form of computation > > -- 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.
