On Tuesday, October 16, 2018 at 1:01:40 PM UTC-5, Brent wrote: > > > > On 10/16/2018 1:14 AM, Philip Thrift wrote: > > But here is the thesis I think of the experience-oriented (vs. > information-oriented) paradigm*: *Experience cannot be represented: It > does not exist outside of its material instantiation.* > > > But that's just an assertion that, not only am I giving up, but you must > give up too. I'm defining "the hard problem" to be "the impossible > problem". > > Most things don't exist outside of their material instantiation, > including intelligence. > > Brent >
With *representationalism*, one can run "intelligent" software on CPUs, GPUs, etc. made of basically any material (as long as the computing structure - "Turing-equivalence" - is the same). *Experientialism* (anti-representationalism) says it has to be particular materials [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypothetical_types_of_biochemistry ]. - pt -- 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.
