On 24 March 2015 at 11:08, meekerdb <meeke...@verizon.net> wrote: > Or you can throw out the assumption that conscious thought is > independent of an external world. This assumption comes easily to > Platonist because they think Platonia exists independent of any worlds; but > I find it very suspicious. >
Doesn't that take you back to the starting point of Bruno's argument? If conscious thought depends on the world, then either it's a computation, or part of one (apparently the argument works even if you have to assume the HUbble sphere is digitally simulatable, if that's the right word) - in which case we seem led inexorably to the UDA/MGA/TLA - or it's something else. What else could it be? -- 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.
