On 5/24/2015 4:27 PM, Stathis Papaioannou wrote:
On 25 May 2015 at 07:51, meekerdb <[email protected]> wrote:
On 5/24/2015 11:28 AM, Stathis Papaioannou wrote:
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.
The people won't necessarily know, but they could know, as it could be
revealed by the programmers or deduced from some programming glitch
(as in the film "The Thirteenth Floor"). But I don't think it makes a
difference if they know or not. The answer to the obvious objection
that if you destroy the brain you destroy consciousness, so
consciousness can't reside in Platonia, is that both the brain and
consciousness could reside in Platonia.
Where ever they reside though you have to explain how damaging the brain changes
consciousness. And if you can explain this relation in Platonia why won't the same
relation exist in Physicalia.
Brent
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