Hi Craig Weinberg I think that comp is a form of scientific idealism. I don't know exactly what that means, but there are clues at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idealism#Idealism_in_the_philosophy_of_science Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/15/2012 "Forever is a long time, especially near the end." -Woody Allen ----- Receiving the following content ----- From: Craig Weinberg Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-10-13, 20:13:17 Subject: Re: Continuous Game of Life On Saturday, October 13, 2012 8:05:26 PM UTC-4, stathisp wrote: On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 10:51 AM, Craig Weinberg wrote: > Since we know that our consciousness is exquisitely sensitive to particular > masses of specific chemicals, yet relatively tolerant of other kinds of > chemical changes, it suggests that we should strongly suspect that COMP is a > fantasy. That proves nothing. Any machine will be sensitive to small physical changes of one kind and tolerant of other changes. If you introduce a little bit of saline into the brain nothing will happen, if you introduce inside an integrated circuit it will destroy it. But if you introduce digital saline into a program, even if there is an effect that we can imagine is destruction, we can just restore from a backup. No actual destruction has taken place. The question of COMP deals not with physical computing devices versus biological organisms, but logic which is independent of all forms of matter, energy, space, and time. Craig -- Stathis Papaioannou -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/everything-list/-/ieYmJNFW_dUJ. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en.
