On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 03:53:02PM -0700, [email protected] wrote: > > Then - the notion of Computation being intrinsically conscious - a basic > assaumption that I'[d call a major recurrent theme of computionralism over > a pretty long period. A lot o.f your friends have said they buy it. Russll > has said it a few times.
I have not "bought" the idea that computation is intrinsically conscious. I do not believe that the emacs process I'm typing this email into is in any way conscious, for example. I do accept, for the sake of argument, the possibility that consciousness is a computational process, or can be implemented in one. This is COMP. I don't believe it, and certainly have somne reservations about it. But I do buy the UDA, and its conclusion of reversal. In fact I think its conclusion probably remains valid, even if you relax COMP to a more general functionalism position (not Putnam's functionalism, mind you, but the more usual variety), although this has more to do with observers finding themselves in the Library of Babel, as one cannot rely on the Church Thesis as one does with the UDA. Cheers -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Professor of Mathematics [email protected] 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/d/optout.
