2010/1/3 Nick Prince m...@dtech.fsnet.co.uk:
HI Bruno
Thank you so much for your answers to my queries so far. I really
need to do some more thinking about all that you have said so far and
to understand why I am having difficulty replacing a real physical
universal machine existing in the
Thank you Stathis
This has helped move me on a bit. “The hardwareless computer” has been
giving me some real problems. Let me replay my understanding of what
you said back just to check it is on the right lines.
As a possible example of one of these “lurking computations” we could
consider the
2010/1/4 Nick Prince m...@dtech.fsnet.co.uk:
Thank you Stathis
This has helped move me on a bit. “The hardwareless computer” has been
giving me some real problems. Let me replay my understanding of what
you said back just to check it is on the right lines.
As a possible example of one of
Stathis wrote
Yes, but a critic could still say that no conscious observer could be
conjured up by a computation unless the computation is physically
implemented. At least at first glance that seems to be the case: the
brain is required for consciousness, since if the brain is destroyed
Hi Folks,
I would like to append a question that we all seem to circle around: Why
do we even need to have a physical existance at all? Why isn't Platonic
existence sufficient?
Onward!
Stephen
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From: Nick Prince m...@dtech.fsnet.co.uk
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We're not circling around it. Bruno asserts it. But then we need to
explain the things that were formerly explained by physical existence -
e.g. intersubjective agreement about a physical world, the dependence
of thought on brains, etc.
Brent
Stephen Paul King wrote:
Hi Folks,
I
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