On Saturday, 14 November 2015, Brent Meeker <[email protected]> wrote:
> Here's an interesting essay by Scott that ends up with a somewhat more > technical explication of my idea that consciousness requires a world or > environment with which it interacts. > > http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=1951 > > However, he doesn't notice that this also solves the problem of why we > don't worry about being simulated in the digits of pi and what it means to > be "physically instantiated". > > A lot of good comments too. > Clever though it seems, there is no reason to accept the theory other than to support the prejudice that only certain types of entities can be conscious. -- 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.
