On 27 February 2014 22:22, Russell Standish <li...@hpcoders.com.au> wrote:
Only when interpreted by an observer. An electrical circuit has only > voltages and currents, not bits. To an observer, a voltage on a data > line might be interpreted as 1 if it is greater than 3V, and zero if > it is less than 1V. In between those two thresholds, the voltage might > be determinate, but the information is not. > AFAICT observers don't seem central to constructor theory - it seems to be (or aims at being) an "objective" theory from which everything else of relevance will be emergent. From what I remember of the topic in FOR, David isn't an avowed eliminativist on consciousness but on the whole seems content to sideline it as a subsidiary problem for psychologists. That said, do you feel that his information-is-physical position, even in the case that physics-is-construction, is in effect crypto-eliminativism? 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.
