On 9 May 2015 at 11:28, meekerdb <[email protected]> wrote: > On 5/8/2015 3:24 PM, Russell Standish wrote: > >> On Fri, May 08, 2015 at 08:47:22AM +0200, Bruno Marchal wrote: >> >>> >>> It is only a new recent fashion on this list to take seriously that >>> a recording can be conscious, because for a logician, that error is >>> the (common) confusion between the finger and the moon, or between >>> "2+2=4" and 2+2=4. >>> >>> It is only recently that we began seriously discussing the MGA at all >> (about the last 3 years). >> >> Why do you say conscious recording (playbacks) are the same as the >> confusion >> between "2+2=4" and 2+2=4? >> > > One thing is that that there can be many different instances of "2+2=4" > but only one 2+2=4. >
It's map and territory, like the finger and the Moon. The finger points to the Moon to indicate it, but isn't itself the Moon. Likewise with "2+2=4" -- 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.
