On Tue, May 28, 2019 at 7:16 AM Bruno Marchal <[email protected]> wrote:
*> You have agreed that two identical digital brain, physically realised in > different place, doing the same computations, would support one > consciousness,* > Yes. > > *but you keep believing that physics is enough to predict our first > person experience.* > Physics can never make a good prediction if you don't make clear exactly what it is that you want predicted, and neither science nor anything else can predict what the referent is to the personal pronouns in your increasingly convoluted thought experiments. >>If I could prove with mathematical certitude that X caused consciousness > would you say the issue had been put to bed and its time to move on to > other things? > > > *> On the contrary, I prove, in the frame of my working hypothesis, that > this is impossible.* > Then why don't you stop wasting your time by trying to do something that can't be done and try to solve a problem that is not impossible, like figuring out how to organize matter in such a way that it behaves intelligently? 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv2g0cDc5_hjgJ-bGrzygeL0_qUjbYtg2xMv8F%2BZH16ofA%40mail.gmail.com.
