On 9/18/2014 5:46 PM, Russell Standish wrote:
Consciousness has a state (which we call the
observer moment). If that state differs, then the state of the
supervened must also differ.
Thus consciousness cannot supervene on the UD* as it doesn't change
for a change of state of consciousness.
This seems to me to arise from equivocation about "consciousness". You are treating it,
as I experience it, as a temporal phenomenon - a succession of thoughts, an inner
narrative. That's the consciousness I'd like to be able to program/engineer/understand.
But Bruno make's consciousness a potentiality of an axiomatic system, for which he seems
almost everything alive as a model (in the mathematical sense), anything that could
instantiate an "if-then" or a "controlled-controlled-not". And he says that salvia makes
him think consciousness need not be temporal - which might be like whiskey sometimes makes
me think the ground sways. From Bruno's viewpoint the UD* just IS and Alice's different
thoughts as different times are just computations of those thoughts which are correlated
with computations of those times. That may resolve the atemporal UD vs the temporal
experience, but it still doesn't explain consciousness. It doesn't explain what
computations of Alice's are constitute her consciousness as opposed to her
subconsciousness or her brain functions or other stuff going on. It is not an answer to
say, well maybe everything in conscious.
Brent
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