On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 09:46:14AM +1000, Stathis Papaioannou wrote: > > I agree with your comment. My post was in response to Russell, who > claimed that a way out of the "Fading Qualia" paper conclusion that > computerised replacement of neurons would preserve consciousness was > that the qualia could remain until some threshold of replacement was > reached then suddenly disappear, causing a transition from full > consciousness to full zombie. Bruno also suggested something like > this.
> It is possible, but it would mean there is a decoupling between > qualia and the underlying function, and it would also make for a kind > of weird partial computationalism. That's what you haven't demonstrated. I don't see why you say this. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Professor of Mathematics [email protected] 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 [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.
