On 8 May 2015 at 07:59, John Clark <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, May 7, 2015 Russell Standish <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> >> When a recording of consciousness is played back does the >>> consciousness exist during the playback or just when the computer >>> was actually making calculations? If computationalism is true, and I think >>> it is, then the answer to that question doesn't make any subjective >>> difference whatsoever. >> >> >> > Exactly. That was one of my points. >> > > It was? Well that simplifies things considerably because I was only trying > to make 2 key points and that was one of them, the other was that Bruno's > and your entire argument hinges on the existence of a computer made of > MATTER that operates according to PHYSICAL law. > > Only to start with, however. Eventually, it purports to show that those assumptions are unnecessary.
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