On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 2:42 AM, meekerdb <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 6/11/2014 5:31 PM, Platonist Guitar Cowboy wrote: > > > > > On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 1:27 AM, meekerdb <[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. > Yes, but with vice versa as given, Turing machine emulating a quantum system at some given precision of inputs, my "slight" may be slight or weak, but not negligible. And yes, just because I have hygiene, cleanliness obsessions as aesthetic preference, doesn't make it so. Slight nonetheless! :-) PGC > > Brent > > -- > 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. > -- 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.
