Re: INDEXICAL Computationalism

> On 21 Feb 2018, at 00:48, Brent Meeker wrote: > > > > On 2/18/2018 10:21 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: >> If consciousness is invariant for a digital transplant, it is not much a >> matter of choice. > > But that's simply assuming what is to be argued. ? It is the

Re: Singularity -- when AI exceeds human intelligence

> On 21 Feb 2018, at 20:40, Brent Meeker wrote: > > > > On 2/21/2018 1:32 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: >> I guess you mean enumerable here. I don’t see what physical bounds have to >> do with Church-Turing thesis, though. We laws suppose that the universal >> machine have

Re: Why Alien Life Would be our Doom - The Great Filter

> On 21 Feb 2018, at 19:07, John Clark wrote: > > > On Wed, Feb 21, 2018 at 4:26 AM, Bruno Marchal > wrote: > > ​> ​But you betray yourself recently by defining comp by ​[blah blah] > > ​I have never in my like defined

Re: Why Alien Life Would be our Doom - The Great Filter

On Thu, Feb 22, 2018 at 7:21 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: ​> ​ > You are playing with word. “Comp” has been used as a shortcut for > computations since more than 20 years on this list. > ​I know what ​ ​ computations ​ ​ are and and know what computationalism is, but that is not

Re: Singularity -- when AI exceeds human intelligence

On 2/22/2018 4:38 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: The mechanist answer to this is “yes”. The more you have neurons, the less conscious you are. Which is why mice are more conscious than you are and spiders are more conscious than mice. Indeed. I know it is counter-intuitive, but we were warned by

Re: INDEXICAL Computationalism

On 2/22/2018 1:09 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 21 Feb 2018, at 00:48, Brent Meeker wrote: On 2/18/2018 10:21 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: If consciousness is invariant for a digital transplant, it is not much a matter of choice. But that's simply assuming what is to be

Sudden-stratospheric-warming-event-fractures-polar-vortex-in-two

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Re: Singularity -- when AI exceeds human intelligence

On 2/22/2018 7:06 PM, 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List wrote: Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android On Wed, Feb 21, 2018 at 1:37 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 19 Feb 2018, at 21:27, 'Chris de Morsella'

Brian Whitworth's views on the Physics of a Simulated Universe

Brian Whitworth is a mathematician in NZ who has worked for quite a while with the idea of the universe being a sim. Peruse t leisure with some of his material and see what you think? I lifted this from a 2 month old email, that I forgot about because I was moving, and re-discovered it tonight.

Re: Singularity -- when AI exceeds human intelligence

Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android On Wed, Feb 21, 2018 at 1:37 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 19 Feb 2018, at 21:27, 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List wrote: On Mon, Feb 19, 2018 at 3:56 AM, Lawrence