On 5/24/2015 11:28 AM, Stathis Papaioannou wrote:
On Monday, May 25, 2015, meekerdb <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:On 5/24/2015 1:52 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote:Again, with comp, all incarnations are "zombie", because bodies do not think. It is the abstract person which thinksBut a few thumps on the body and the "abstract person" won't think either. So far as we have observered *only* bodies think. If comp implies the contrary isn't that so much the worse for comp.In a virtual environment, destroying the body destroys the consciousness, but both are actually due to the underlying computations.
How can those thumped know it's virtual. A virtual environment with virtual people doing virtual actions seems to make "virtual" virtually meaningless.
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