On 26 May 2015 at 05:45, John Clark <[email protected]> wrote: > Of that I have no opinion because nobody knows what "comp" means, least of > all Bruno. > > Comp is the theory that consciousness is the product of Turing-emulable processes, i.e. that it's a computation. The idea that we may one day create AIs is based on the same assumption. There are a couple of extra assumptions to do with certain mathematical ideas being correct (e.g. the Church-Turing thesis, I believe). But I believe it's a fairly standard theory used by a lot of scientists - Hugh Everett III for example used it in his thesis.
For clarity I have called this comp1 and Bruno's results derived from it comp2, but unless someone can show a fault in the argument connecting them this is a purely nominal distinction. -- 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.
