On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 06:52:47AM +0200, Quentin Anciaux wrote: > Le 15 août 2014 06:41, "meekerdb" <[email protected]> a écrit : > > > > OK. So do you think consciousness supervenes on such a simple > computation - one that's functionally identical with a recording? > > I think it does... as it does on a giant lookup table. But as it is in fact > supervening on *all* computations going through the same states and not on > this or that precise computation, it's not a problem. >
Hi Quentin, I'm pretty sure it was you who straightened me out on this topic a bit over a year ago, so it seems surprising you're going back on this. The computation supervenenience thesis is that consciousness supervenes on all counterfactually equivalent computations (to a particular execution step), which is a more restricted set than those passing through a given sequence of states. This allows us to assert that the consciousness does not supervene on the recording (but will supervene on the huge lookup table, as the latter is counterfactually correct). IIRC, Searle's Chinese Room is a huge lookup table. It fails the intuition pump test because the lookup table would need to be astronomically vast, not a human sized book as painted in the thought experiment. Cheers -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Professor of Mathematics [email protected] University of New South Wales http://www.hpcoders.com.au Latest project: The Amoeba's Secret (http://www.hpcoders.com.au/AmoebasSecret.html) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- 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.
