On 6/8/2015 1:03 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote:
Hence what I've called comp1 is the default materialist hypothesis (also known as the
strong AI thesis, I think)
Comp1 is not comp, even if it is "comp" for a materialist: but that position is proved
to be nonsense.
Comp is just "I am a digitalizable machine".
String AI is the thesis that machine can think (be conscious). It does not logically
entail comp. Machine can think, but does not need to be the only thinking entities. Gods
and goddesses might be able to think too.
But in saying "I am a digitalizable machine" you implicitly assume that machine exists in
the environment that you exist in. It is this environment and your potential interaction
with it that provides meaning to the "digital thoughts" of the machine.
Brent
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