On 8/2/2016 10:19 PM, Stathis Papaioannou wrote:
On Wednesday, 3 August 2016, Brent Meeker <[email protected]
<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');>> wrote:
On 8/2/2016 3:29 PM, Stathis Papaioannou wrote:
On Wednesday, 3 August 2016, Brent Meeker <[email protected]>
wrote:
On 8/2/2016 6:15 AM, Stathis Papaioannou wrote:
It's not that it can't, but rather that it doesn't, and
if it does then that would require some extra physical
explanation, a radio link between brains or something.
That's what I mean by illegitimately appealing to physics
while claiming that physics must be derived from computation
of consciousness.
Whatever theory we propose must be consistent with observation.
But, "if it does then*/that would require some extra physical
explanation/*, a radio link between brains or something." Is not
an observation, it's an assumption that all information transfer
must be physical.
There is no convincing evidence for telepathic communication, so a
theory that predicts it should occur would have to explain why we
don't observe it.
Yes, and physical theories of consciousness do that quite well. But
computationalist theories of consciousness can't invoke the physics
they're trying to derive.
Brent
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