On Sunday, November 4, 2018 at 7:54:19 AM UTC-6, John Clark wrote: > > On Sun, Nov 4, 2018 at 6:23 AM Philip Thrift <[email protected] > <javascript:>> 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 >
It's that experience (not just information) that needs processing to produc*e consciousness*. That's the assertion. It one says intelligence == consciousness (the two are interchangeable), then that's a matter of definition. But I say there can be unconscious (pseudo-)intelligent robots made. - 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.
