On 3/6/2014 7:48 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote:
(b) think computation is intrinsically conscious
But this wording is worst, as it looks like it insists that a computation (or some
computation) are conscious. But only a first person is conscious, and a first person is
nothing capable of being defined in any 3p way.
For example, a brain cannot think. Brain activity cannot think, a computer cannot think,
a computation cannot think, I would say. But I can still say yes to the doctor, because
I can believe that my consciousness is related to an infinity of number relation in
arithmetic, and that a brain or a machine might make it possible for that consciousness
to be manifestable here and now, with hopefully the right relative measure.
If it were not manifested here and now, what would it be conscious of?
Brent
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