On 9 May 2015 at 11:28, meekerdb <meeke...@verizon.net> 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 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.
