On 24 June 2015 at 02:00, John Clark <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 Stathis Papaioannou <[email protected]> wrote: > > > consciousness may not need physical instantiation, which is where >> unfettered computationalism leads. > > > People like Bruno are the only ones who believe in "unfettered > computationalism", everybody else knows there is not one single example of > a computation being made without a physical instantiation, not even 1+1; > and nobody has even the ghost of a hint of a hunch of an idea of how to do > such a thing. >
The problem is to deal with the consequences of computationalism that Scott Aaronson has raised in the blog, and have been raised many times on this list: can a lookup table be conscious? What about a lookup table that is not actually consulted? What about Boltzmann Brains? What about Maudlin's Klara or Bruno's MGA? What about a rock? -- 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.
