On 17 February 2014 00:12, meekerdb <meeke...@verizon.net> wrote: I don't think so. We know where the values of the Mars Rover are encoded > and how they affect its behavior and we know how we could change them. > That's about as good as reductionism gets.
But now aren't you just substituting value as an epiphenomenon of physics in place of consciousness? Stathis could just as easily say that this was merely a manner of speaking and whatever occurs is simply a consequence of physical causation. 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 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.