On Fri, May 08, 2015 at 09:02:29AM +0200, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > In 1987, when I present the argument, in the room some come up with > similar idea, and I answered. But some told me after that when > people come up with idea like a recording is conscious, or 2+2 might
Really? Why are people so quick to accept that conscious recordings are absurd? Sure I can understand that Bogie in the screen version of Casablanca is not conscious, but that is not the sort of recording we're talking about. Here we're talking about something like an EEG pattern where every neuron is recorded, as well as the entire connectome. Why is it any more absurd for that to be be conscious than it is for the original lump of grey goo to be conscious? After all, the ancient Egyptians thought it a prepostuous idea, and would chuck the brains out when mummifying the Pharoahs. I don't think intuition is a reliable guide here, which is why I focus more on counterfactual correctness, which is at least something that can be grasped rigorously. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Professor of Mathematics hpco...@hpcoders.com.au University of New South Wales http://www.hpcoders.com.au ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- 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 everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
