On 17 August 2014 07:14, meekerdb <[email protected]> wrote: > > Both consciousness and physics supervene on the computations, which > exist necessarily. Consciousness does not supervene on the physics. > > Yes, I agreed to that. The question was can consciousness supervene on > computations that do not instantiate any physics? I think not. >
Would you mind clarifying this? I'm not what it means that consciousness can only supervene on computations that instantiate physics. For example - assuming my brain is doing computations, how is it instantiating physics? Or did you mean that the brain is a physical object, and hence instantiated within physics, so to speak? > And then the other question is can physics supervene on computations that > do not instantiate any consciousness? I'm not sure about that. > If I read this arright, which I probably don't, this would be equivalent to comp generating universes with no observers, which I imagine is by definition impossible. But maybe the answer to the previous question will clarify this one. -- 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.
