On 6/11/2014 5:31 PM, Platonist Guitar Cowboy wrote:
On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 1:27 AM, meekerdb <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:On 6/11/2014 2:48 PM, Platonist Guitar Cowboy wrote:It's just a modal function. I don't see that it "knows" anything. ISTM you are leaping the 3p/1p gap here in a way you consider illegitimate for physical theories. If beings for argument's sake made of some matter in physical theories can know via exploring relations and patterns scientifically in 3p: why would the appropriate universal machines/numbers in comp ontology not be able to do the same?No reason. But the same question goes both ways.Indeed, but there might be a slight advantage for "just a function" to relate, because that's what it does via agreed upon terms. Whereas with an entity arising out of matter subject to quantum logic, it's weird that it would relate at all. Even weirder still that such entity will intuitively tend to reason classically. PGC
If the quantum system can emulate a Turing machine, then it's no weirder for it to be conscious than an UD.
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