2014-06-25 6:52 GMT+02:00 meekerdb <[email protected]>: > On 6/24/2014 2:29 AM, LizR wrote: > > On 24 June 2014 17:04, meekerdb <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >>> If primitive matter existed, and if it has a role for consciousness, or >>> for consciousness instantiation, step 8, and the argument above, makes that >>> role very mysterious, so much that it is not clear why we could still say >>> yes to the doctor in virtue of correct digital rendering. >>> >> >> You can still say yes to the doctor because he is going to use matter >> to make your brain prosthesis. >> > > Surely that will just be a copy that thinks it's you - it won't be you, > so if you are destroyed in the process of making the digital copy, you > really do die. While in comp the digital copy *is* you, by definition. > > > ?? Comp is the theory that it will be you after the doctor gives you a > prothesis for your brain (plus some other assumptions). >
Not only that, as comp stands for *computationalism* so, it also means that whatever your mind is, it can be captured by a form of computation... what you're defining here is functionalism (and computationalism is of course included in functionalism, but not the other way around). Quentin > It will be you even after you are duplicated (though it's troubling for > JKC that "you" is both singular and plural). > > 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. > -- All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. (Roy Batty/Rutger Hauer) -- 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.
