On Monday, May 25, 2015, meekerdb <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. >
It could happen in both, but it is not evidence against a simulated reality to say that consciousness seems to be dependent on the apparently physical brain. -- Stathis Papaioannou -- 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.
