On 8/3/2016 7:43 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote:
On 02 Aug 2016, at 22:41, Brent Meeker wrote:
On 8/2/2016 11:05 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote:
But the argument seems somewhat circular since you assume that the
different physical processes associated with location make the
thoughts different.
Yes, it is more pedagogical, but the "physical" used here is not
assumed to be primary, and the reasoning will just show that if we
do survive with a physical digital brain, then the physical is
reduced to an (fundamental and important) aspect of the "theology of
number", or if you prefer, of the mathematics of universal machine
self-reference.
But if you must assume the physical in order for that argument to be
valid, it seems that physical is as "primary" as anything else in the
ontology.
No, because the physical assumption is eliminated at step 7.
But I don't think that step is correct. As I've argued several times I
don't think there can be consciousness without a physical context.
Brent
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