On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 10:44:28AM -0700, Brent Meeker wrote: > > On 10/26/2015 2:43 AM, Russell Standish wrote: > > > > >Assuming computationalism, our everyday experience _is_ internal to the > >system. That doesn't make it any less meaningful. > > I think that's a confusion. The system is the universe with it's > physics. So in a sense everything is internal to it. But > experience is individual and it's meaningful because the individual > has values and memory and so incorporates experiences into decisions > about future actions...that's what constitutes giving them > semantics. >
Hi Brent, I appreciate your point of view very much, but I fail to see how what you say is incompatible with my claim. Where is the confusion? The only clarification I would make is that (with computationalism) the system is formal, but the observer (individual in your terminology) and environment (universe with its physics in your terminology) are a non formal partition of the system. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Professor of Mathematics [email protected] University of New South Wales http://www.hpcoders.com.au ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- 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.
