On 10/13/2015 1:57 AM, Stathis Papaioannou wrote:
On 13 October 2015 at 11:48, Bruce Kellett <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:On 13/10/2015 9:46 am, Jason Resch wrote: The double-slit experiment is evidence of platonic computation being responsible for our consciousness, along with many other properties seen in physics. Come again? How on earth do you make that out? The double slit experiment is evidence for quantum superpositions of waves and/or particles. Nothing to do with consciousness. As for the rest of physics?????? The theory has survived numerous tests, without being disproven, which is all we can hope for as evidence for any theory. Quantum mechanics is a well-tested theory. Computationalism is not. Computationalism can't even get the basic physics right, much less explain how the universe came to exist long before consciousness emerged.Computationalism is the theory that a computer could simulate not only the brain's behaviour, but also consciousness. It is possible that the brain utilises non-computable physics, in which case computationalism would be false. Is that what you believe?
Let's be clear though that "non-computable" means Church-Turing non-computable. It's possible that physics at some level is instantiated by some higher level of computability. CT non-computable doesn't imply supernatural magic.
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