On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 08:12:30PM -0700, meekerdb wrote:
>
> That does seem strange, but I don't know that it strikes me as
> *absurd*. Isn't it clearer that a recording is not a computation?
> And so if consciousness supervened on a recording it would prove
> that consciousness did not require computation?
>
To be precise "supervening on the playback of a recording". Playback
of a recording _is_ a computation too, just a rather simple one.
In other words:
#include <stdio.h>
int main()
{
printf("hello world!\n");
return 1;
}
is very much a computer program (and a playback of recording of the
words "hello world" when run). I could change "hello world" to the contents of
Wikipedia, to illustrate the point more forcibly.
Cheers
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