On 26 June 2014 16:10, meekerdb <meeke...@verizon.net> wrote: > That isn't the reason I gave. I pointed out that for the consciousness of > the MGA to be achieved it had to consciousness of a world and that world > had to have a physics and the consciousness then depended on events and > processes in that physics. So while the consciousness was achieved with no > physical activity in this world, the world which the consciousness was > conscious of, did have physical activity which from out point of view was > simulated. >
I may well find that convincing once I understand the MGA. At the moment it appears to be all "smoke and mirrors" so to speak -- I just can't get my head around it, although I *can* see the previous steps, I think, up to the point at which my consciousness may either exist in a UD running in a robust universe, or in arithmetical realism, if such a thing exists. Those at least seem to make sense, whether true or not. But the next step throws me. > But as you note "simulated" is meaningless when applied to a whole world. > I also noted that (more importantly, IMHO) it's meaningless when applied to consciousness however it may be instantiated. -- 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 everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.