On Wednesday, October 30, 2019 at 5:45:29 PM UTC-5, stathisp wrote: > > > > On Thu, 31 Oct 2019 at 07:44, Alan Grayson <[email protected] > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> >> >> On Wednesday, October 30, 2019 at 4:30:19 AM UTC-6, Philip Thrift wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> On Wednesday, October 30, 2019 at 5:01:14 AM UTC-5, Alan Grayson wrote: >>>> >>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Schneider >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> It's a common AI view, that the program (programming) of consciousness >>> (like what's running in your brain right now) is substrate independent. >>> >>> @philipthrift >>> >> >> What is "substrate independent"? >> > > The computation is the same independently of the substrate of its > implementation. For example, you could run the same program on a computer > based on vacuum tubes or transistors, with the same output. > >> -- > Stathis Papaioannou >
That's the case for the conventional-Platonistic definition of computing. Not the case for computing with a material-intrinsic semantics. @philipthrift -- 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/cf6758ca-3924-44f5-b0ff-f32111c27ecf%40googlegroups.com.
