When I talk about comp, like everyone else on this list apart from you, I mean Bruno's theory. That's what I'm talking about here. May I respectfully suggest you call yours something else, to avoid confusion?
On 10 January 2014 15:52, Edgar L. Owen <[email protected]> wrote: > 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]> 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. > -- 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.
