On Saturday, May 10, 2014, LizR <[email protected]> wrote: > I guess one could start from "is physics computable?" (As Max Tegmark > discusses in his book, but I haven't yet read what his conclusions are, if > any). If physics is computable and consciousness arises somehow in a > "materialist-type way" from the operation of the brain, then consciousness > will be computable by definition. >
Is that trivially obvious to you? The anti-comp crowd claim that even if brain behaviour is computable that does not mean that a computer could be conscious, since it may require the actual brain matter, and not just a simulation, to generate the consciousness. -- Stathis Papaioannou -- 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.
