On Saturday, May 9, 2015 at 8:24:51 AM UTC+10, Russell Standish wrote: > > On Fri, May 08, 2015 at 08:47:22AM +0200, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > > > > > It is only a new recent fashion on this list to take seriously that > > a recording can be conscious, because for a logician, that error is > > the (common) confusion between the finger and the moon, or between > > "2+2=4" and 2+2=4. > > > > It is only recently that we began seriously discussing the MGA at all > (about the last 3 years). > > Why do you say conscious recording (playbacks) are the same as the > confusion > between "2+2=4" and 2+2=4? I don't even know what you mean by > confusion between the finger and the moon... > > I don't know where that originally comes from, but most trippers know it! :) The finger that points to the moon is not the moon itself. The representation is not the thing.
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