On 08 May 2015, at 03:00, LizR wrote:
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.
Not just unnecessary, but that they use "primary matter" as a god-of-
the-gap, like the atheists usually criticize the creationist.
Bruno
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