On 28 March 2014 12:00, Stathis Papaioannou <stath...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 28 March 2014 09:51, LizR <lizj...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On 28 March 2014 11:46, Stathis Papaioannou <stath...@gmail.com> 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 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/d/optout.
