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 hpco...@hpcoders.com.au 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 everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
