On 3 August 2016 at 16:02, Brent Meeker <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > On 8/2/2016 10:19 PM, Stathis Papaioannou wrote: > > > > On Wednesday, 3 August 2016, Brent Meeker <[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. > Bruno, I believe, proposes that his theory accounts for the universe that we observe. -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
