On Thursday, February 13, 2014 6:05:34 PM UTC-5, Russell Standish wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 10:23:14AM -0800, Edgar L. Owen wrote: > > Craig, > > > > I also suspect Bruno's math skills are superior to mine, but his > > understanding of the place of math in reality seems pretty deficient, or > > perhaps just rigid. > > > > As I've pointed out his 8 steps may well be mathematically consistent > but > > that doesn't mean they have anything to do with the fundamental > structure > > of reality at all. To meaningfully apply a purely mathematical or > logical > > proof to reality, one must establish an actual correspondence of the > > variables in the proof to actual variables of reality. I don't see Bruno > > doing that at all. > > The strength of Bruno's approach is that that is implicit in the > assumption of COMP. Once you assume that one's consciousness can be > implemented by a computation, then necessarily ontological reality > (whatever that is) can also be implemented by a computation. This is a > simple consequence of the Church thesis. >
I understand that, but my argument has never been with Bruno's approach to Comp, it is with the assumption of Comp itself. I have a different understanding of the relation between information and consciousness which makes more sense, and it explains why Comp is false, and why it cannot be proved false logically. Craig > > -- > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) > Principal, High Performance Coders > Visiting Professor of Mathematics [email protected]<javascript:> > University of New South Wales http://www.hpcoders.com.au > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > -- 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.
