On 9 May 2015 at 18:08, Russell Standish <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sat, May 09, 2015 at 01:23:57PM +1200, LizR wrote: > > On 9 May 2015 at 11:59, Russell Standish <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > On Fri, May 08, 2015 at 12:43:32PM +1200, LizR wrote:> Assuming a > > > recording *can* be conscious (i.e. that the MGA's conclusion > > > > isn't absurd) then of course it can be. > > > > > > > > > > But such a recording is so large (probably consuming all the matter > > > with the visible universe), how can you assert that it's consciousness > > > is absurd? That is what you need to do to make the MGA work... > > > > > > Now you're doing what Brent does - repeating something that's more or > less > > what I said, prefaced by "but". > > > > I didn't assert it was absurd, I said "assuming..." > > > > To be fair, I didn't imply you were asserting it either. Just that one > needed to assert it in order for the MGA to work. But I'm glad we're > "more or less" in agreement :). Now this a genuine problem of pronouns > ("we" and "you" are often used to refer to the impersonal "one" in > English, which is not really a problem in French, for which "on" is > always the appropriate choice). > Yes, sorry. As a bear of little brain I tend to get a bit touchy about feeling I've been misunderstood, or (especially) thought to have professed views I don't hold, or wasn't holding at that point. Yes, there is a pronoun problem here - one normally overcomes this particular problem by using "one" :-) And yes I think we more or less agree on this one - intuition isn't too reliable when you're dealing with the consciousness that may or may not be embedded in books the size of the universe... (Sheesh! My friends would worry for my sanity if they knew I discuss things like this! At least I hope they would, and haven't already made their minds up...) -- 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.
