On Tue, Oct 9, 2018 at 10:09 AM Bruno Marchal <[email protected]> wrote:
>>There are 2 ways this can be done: 1) With a wet Turing Machine (aka a brain made of matter) > 2) With a dry Turing Machine (aka a computer made of matter) > Both methods work fine. > *>That is fine FAPP. Meaning: it is not fine when doing metaphysics with > the scientific attitude.* You can't do metaphysics with a scientific attitude, if you could it wouldn't be metaphysics, it would just be physics. Metaphysics means unscientific speculation about physics. *> you cannot invoke “matter” if you want associate consciousness to that > intelligent behaviour,* If? Without that association there is no alternative to solipsism. And without matter you can't have intelligent behavior, or even unintelligent behavior. *> because the consciousness itself will have to associate itself with the > infinitely many computations,* That of course is nonsense. > *You forget the fact that the physical reality is not the only thing > capable of emulating Turing machine, the elementary arithmetical reality, > in fact all models of Robinson Arithmetic* [blah blah blah blah] You've been telling us for years about the wonders of Robinson arithmetic but stop talking about it and do something with it! Start the Robinson Computer Corporation and become the world's first trillionaire by this time next year. John K Clark -- 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.
