On 22 January 2014 18:26, Russell Standish <li...@hpcoders.com.au> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 02:42:43PM +1300, LizR wrote: > > > > Phew, I got there in the end :) > > > > I can only assume that having an (apparent) body etc is more probable > than > > being a disembodied p-ghost, but explaining this in comp (or any "Theory > of > > Nothing") sounds like it may be a measure problem over an infinite set. > > Naively, I would have thought the opposite, actually - hence I would be > looking > for some logical principle preventing it occurring. I speculated in my > book that consciousness may not be sustainable without a body to act > as a feedback for self-awareness, as being that reason. > > That's more or less what I was trying to say. I would "naively expect" to be a p-ghost, or at least not particularly attached to a body, unless there's a damn good reason for it to be there. (Assuming we don't accept the "classical materialism" reason for it to be there, of course.) -- 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 everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
