Information is only processed in minds, not in physical systems, unless you can show that minds are physical systems. I believe minds are mathematical objects, as are physical systems, and that minds are a particular kind of mathematical object. I strongly suspect that the particular kind of mathematical object that minds are is called a lawless choice sequence.
Still doing some reading and thinking on that, though. -- Mark Buda <her...@acm.org> I get my monkeys for nothing and my chimps for free. On Sun, Nov 4, 2018, 8:54 AM John Clark <johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote: > On Sun, Nov 4, 2018 at 6:23 AM Philip Thrift <cloudver...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > *> If experience (Galen Strawson, The Subject of Experience) is the result >> of information (only) processing, * >> > > If? If information is not the thing that needs processing to produce > intelligence then what is? > > > then the argument for arithmetical (Platonic) reality holds. >> > > Only if somebody can show how information, or anything else, can be > processed without using matter that obeys the laws of physics. And, despite > the existence of books made of dead trees with black squiggles made of ink > with a high Carbon content pressed onto them, nobody has even come close to > doing that. > > 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 everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- 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 everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
