On 3/24/2015 11:18 PM, Quentin Anciaux wrote:
Le 25 mars 2015 05:08, "Russell Standish" <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> a écrit :
>
> On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 12:25:04AM +0100, Quentin Anciaux wrote:
> > Le 25 mars 2015 00:11, "meekerdb" <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> a écrit :
> >
> > When rerunning the program with the recorded initial input, by hypothesis
> > the second run must be as conscious as the first when the inputs came from
> > the 'real' external world... The program itself can't tell as it receives
> > exactly the same inputs... Not similar inputs but *exactly* the same. So
> > either the second run is as conscious as the first or none are.
>
> Or there is precisely one sequence of conscious observer moments no
> matter how many times it is rerun (or recorded and replayed, whatever).
>
> Cheers
Then in this case physical supervenience is false...
How so? Supervenience doesn't forbid different substrates from producing the same
supervening effect. In this case it would be two different instances of the physical
process producing the same conscious thoughts.
Brent
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