On 11 May 2014, at 03:25, Stathis Papaioannou wrote:
You can accept that the brain is computable in the sense that there is an algorithm describing its behaviour but not accept comp. I actually believe it can be shown that IF the brain behaviour is computable THEN comp is true, but the point I am trying to make is that it is not trivially obvious.
I guess you are alluding to "Chalmers" argument, that he sums well in his "fading qualia" paper.
In fact this works for defending some practical comp, like yes doctor, but is not enough to show that we don't need primitive matter, which asks for a subtle argument, à-la MGA or Maudlin, and which can always be blocked by putting enough magic in the primitive matter notion (violating occam).
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