On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 07:28:51AM +0100, Quentin Anciaux wrote: > > The ab asurdo is showing computationalism is incompatible with physical > supervenience, not that it is true. In the end by being forced to accept > consciousness must supervene on the movie + broken gate... If you believe > it, then you've abandon computationalism as a theory of the mind as the > movie+broken gates is not a computation... Or you can keep computationalism > and abandon physical supervenience.... QED >
I have always disagreed with this. The movie+broken gates is still a computation, just a rather simple one. Playing a movie in (eg) SMPlayer is still running a computation. As I see it, the argument still relies on an intuition that the movie+broken gates computation cannot support consciousness. It is an intuition pump, not a proof, and consequently a weakness of the MGA. And static vs dynamic is a red herring, because as Bruce quite rightly points out, a static block Multiverse contains at least one, and by definition all possible conscious entities. Cheers -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Professor of Mathematics [email protected] University of New South Wales http://www.hpcoders.com.au Latest project: The Amoeba's Secret (http://www.hpcoders.com.au/AmoebasSecret.html) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- 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.
