On Tue, May 26, 2015 , LizR <[email protected]> wrote: > Comp is the theory that consciousness is the product of Turing-emulable > processes >
No that's computationalism, "comp" on the other hand is whatever Bruno says it is, and that changes from day to day as circumstances demand. I know this because in nearly every post Bruno decrees that according to "comp" X must be true or according to "comp" Y can not be true when computationalism says nothing of the sort; so whatever "comp" is it's not just an abbreviation for computationalism. > > 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). > The Church-Turing thesis says something about intelligence but not consciousness, it says that any real world computation, like a intelligent action, can be translated into a equivalent program on a Turing machine. > > 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. > Everett had no need to say anything about consciousness because unlike most quantum interpretations in Many World's conscious beings obey exactly the same laws of physics as non conscious things, so Everett didn't have to explain what a observation or an observer is. And that is its great strength. John K Clark -- 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.
