On 19 January 2014 16:19, Stephen Paul King <[email protected]>wrote:
> Dear LizR, > > Here is one way to see my worry. I can put my desktop under a scanning > tunneling microscope and various devices. Will it still operate the same > while it is scanned down its version of the substitution level? I don't > know, but that does not really bother me. I worry about people that make > claims that they can know what software is running on my machine just by > inspecting the parts. > Sure, I can do neat analysis of what might be occurring, but do I really > know? In the case of a distributed network and a type of lambda calculus > that the people I work with and I are studying, there are strong theorems > that prove that your could not tell what software in running on it even if > you could scan it down to substitution levels. > > It is findings like that that re-energize my distrust in the p-zombies. > There is simply no way to know for sure that one is talking to a p-zombie. > ELIZA very well could be self-aware and not know it is talking to you at > all. > > I find it hard to believe in p-zombies for all sorts of reasons. (Except when talking to certain relatives-in-law, but I won't go into that...) -- 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.
