On 28 March 2014 12:00, Stathis Papaioannou <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 28 March 2014 09:51, LizR <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 28 March 2014 11:46, Stathis Papaioannou <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> I would say there is only a finite number of possible biological human >>> minds, >>> >> >> Because the number is limited by the Beckenstein bound if we assume >> physical supervenience ? >> >> >>> but an infinite number of possible minds if you are running them on the >>> Turing machine in Platonia. >>> >> >> (Or an infinite number of Turing machines, according to comp ;-) >> >> Does comp suggest that consciousness corresponds to an infinite number of >> different possible mental states (rather than a very large, but finite, >> number of them) ? >> >> (If so should I assume we're talkng about a countable infinity?) >> > I think you have to specify whether comp means merely that a computer > simulation of a brain can be conscious or go the whole way with Bruno's > conclusion that there is no actual physical computer and all possible > computations are necessarily implemented by virtue of their status as > platonic objects. > So what's the answer in either case? -- 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.
