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 <[email protected]> I get my monkeys for nothing and my chimps for free. On Sun, Nov 4, 2018, 8:54 AM John Clark <[email protected] wrote: > On Sun, Nov 4, 2018 at 6:23 AM Philip Thrift <[email protected]> > 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 [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. > -- 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.
