On Sun, May 10, 2015 at 06:33:56PM +0200, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > If there is a little hole in the movie, it is locally > counterfactually correct, so consciousness remains, but what if the > whole is bigger? And when consciousness would disappear? It has to > disappear, even just with physical supervenience, but then we are > back to fading qualia. >
I have never accepted the fading qualia argument. Subtracting links from a network will at some point cause it to fall in two. Up to that point, it is little different from the original network. After that pointit is vastly improverished. This phenomenon goes by the name of "percolation threshold". Similarly, with fading qualia, one would expect that at some point, one adds the "straw that breaks the camel's back". Why should we not expect the same with removing bits from the recording? After all, if the original recording animated the whole brain, destroying part of the recording will cause some neurons to misbehave. Eventually, the system will be physically unable to support consciousness, but well before every neuron is misbehaving. Cheers -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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.
