On 30 January 2014 22:44, Kim Jones <[email protected]> wrote: > Meanwhile - back at the ranch: > > Tegmark wants to think of consciousness as - wait for it - a state of > matter. This is very confusing. He is just making this up as he goes along, > I'm afraid... > > I think to be fair he wants to work out the properties of conscious matter, e.g. (by assumption) brains, which is in line with the SF idea of "computronium" (assuming consciousness is in some sense a computation). Which isn't a completely flakey idea, because we already have "computronium" to some extent. He's stating that assumption up front, at least in the paper I read recently, and just seeing what follows.
(Also, Tegmark's previous definition of consciousness was "what information feels like when it's being processed" which is in line with this approach, so he isn't making it up 100%) If he can show how physical supervenience works, he could even be onto something. -- 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.
