---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: David Nyman <[email protected]> Date: 15 February 2014 23:45 Subject: RE: Better Than the Chinese Room To: Craig Weinberg <[email protected]>
Can you give me a principled distinction between reproducing and copying? David Sent from my Windows Phone ------------------------------ From: Craig Weinberg Sent: 15/02/2014 23:06 To: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: Better Than the Chinese Room On Saturday, February 15, 2014 3:43:29 PM UTC-5, David Nyman wrote: > On 15 February 2014 18:32, Craig Weinberg <[email protected]> wrote: > > You can't copy awareness. Awareness is what is uncopyable, not just >> because awareness is special, but because it is ontologically perpendicular >> to the possibility of simulation. All attempts to copy awareness result in >> a doll. > > > Does that then entail that if a conscious amoeba were to fission, the > resulting two amoebae would be unconscious? Or only one of them? > That's not a copy of an amoeba, reproducing its body is part of what an amoeba does. > > David > -- 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.
