On 6/30/2020 5:15 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote:

On 27 Jun 2020, at 19:36, Jason Resch <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:

Brent,

It looks like you were right about the importance of including environmental data in a brain simulation. Markus Muller uses algorithmic information theory to argue that whether or not a simulated brain is a zombie or not, depends on a large extent to the degree in which environmental information is incorporated into the simulation:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1699&v=wsbNT3XEdsA&t=51m40s
(See 51 minutes 40 seconds in)

He does not say much there, and taken literally, this is already what the antic dream argument put in doubt.

If we take the arithmetical first person indeterminacy into account, it is not so much the environment which needs to be taken into account, but the collection of all consistent continuation, structured by the material modes of self-reference.

Consistent continuation of  what?  That's the question.

Brent


If not, it means that the substitution level has chosen correctly, or that the “brain” was not well copied… (or that we use a non mechanist theory of mind).

Bruno




Jason

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