On Friday, March 27, 2015 at 12:43:04 AM UTC+1, Bruce wrote: > > Bruno Marchal wrote: > > On 25 Mar 2015, at 16:35, Stathis Papaioannou wrote: > >> > >> If my mind is being run on two separate computers, I can't know which > >> one of the two, and I can't say that my last remembered moment was run > >> on one or other or my next anticipated moment will be run on one or > >> other. If one computer stops it makes no difference to me and if a > >> third computer running my mind comes online it makes no difference to > >> me. So effectively there is only one conscious moment. Under physical > >> supervenience, stopping all the computers stops the conscious moment. > > > > I am OK. I think Quentin is arguing in the reducto ad absurdum part. > > > > In a sense both Russell is righ (there is only one 1p-experience), and > > Quentin is right: we can attribute consciousness in each running (but > > then if we attribute it to the physical activity token: we get the > > absurd conclusion: playing records and real-time consciousness supervene > > on a static film, etc. > > One problem is that this is an invalid "argument from incredulity". The > fact that you find this conclusion absurd is not an argument against the > conclusion: it is merely a statement about how you fell about the > conclusion -- which could be right or wrong, and in either case does not > depend on how you feel about it. >
Why or how is anybody arguing that problem is generated or solved by "how somebody feels about it"? It's via contradiction/standard reductio: assume conclusion false and negation to be true, and from this we derive contradiction. If latter is the case, conclusion must be true. Only two things are required: law of excluded middle and if statement implies something false, it must be false. PGC > > I think there are important points buried here and I will attempt to > explore them in more detail in another post -- I am rather short of time > today. > > Bruce > -- 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.
