Re: Theology or not theology (Re: COMP theology)

2012-03-29 Thread Stephen P. King
On 3/29/2012 11:46 PM, meekerdb wrote: On 3/29/2012 7:37 PM, Stephen P. King wrote: On 3/29/2012 9:20 PM, David Nyman wrote: On 29 March 2012 20:47, meekerdb wrote: You don't know that. It's an assumption based on the idea that conscious experience is something a certain physical body, a br

Re: Theology or not theology (Re: COMP theology)

2012-03-29 Thread meekerdb
On 3/29/2012 7:37 PM, Stephen P. King wrote: On 3/29/2012 9:20 PM, David Nyman wrote: On 29 March 2012 20:47, meekerdb wrote: You don't know that. It's an assumption based on the idea that conscious experience is something a certain physical body, a brain, does. But if conscious experience

Re: Theology or not theology (Re: COMP theology)

2012-03-29 Thread Stephen P. King
On 3/29/2012 9:20 PM, David Nyman wrote: On 29 March 2012 20:47, meekerdb wrote: You don't know that. It's an assumption based on the idea that conscious experience is something a certain physical body, a brain, does. But if conscious experience is a process then it is certainly possible to

Re: Theology or not theology (Re: COMP theology)

2012-03-29 Thread meekerdb
On 3/29/2012 6:20 PM, David Nyman wrote: On 29 March 2012 20:47, meekerdb wrote: You don't know that. It's an assumption based on the idea that conscious experience is something a certain physical body, a brain, does. But if conscious experience is a process then it is certainly possible to

Re: Theology or not theology (Re: COMP theology)

2012-03-29 Thread David Nyman
On 29 March 2012 20:47, meekerdb wrote: > You don't know that.  It's an assumption based on the idea that conscious > experience is something a certain physical body, a brain, does.  But if > conscious experience is a process then it is certainly possible to create a > process that is aware of be

Re: Theology or not theology (Re: COMP theology)

2012-03-29 Thread meekerdb
On 3/29/2012 12:02 PM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 29 Mar 2012, at 20:08, meekerdb wrote: On 3/29/2012 10:14 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: And YOU HAVE BEEN DUPLICATED. I will ask you to do the "hairsplitting" about that "YOU", that you are using here, so as to convince me and others that it refute

Re: Theology or not theology (Re: COMP theology)

2012-03-29 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 29 Mar 2012, at 20:08, meekerdb wrote: On 3/29/2012 10:14 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: And YOU HAVE BEEN DUPLICATED. I will ask you to do the "hairsplitting" about that "YOU", that you are using here, so as to convince me and others that it refutes indeed the indeterminacy about the first

Re: Theology or not theology (Re: COMP theology)

2012-03-29 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 29 Mar 2012, at 18:46, John Clark wrote: On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 Quentin Anciaux wrote: > Comp (and MWI) is a deterministic theory. Many Worlds is deterministic but I don't know about "comp" because "comp" is a homemade term never completely defined and used on this list Comp is "jus

Re: Theology or not theology (Re: COMP theology)

2012-03-29 Thread meekerdb
On 3/29/2012 10:14 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: And YOU HAVE BEEN DUPLICATED. I will ask you to do the "hairsplitting" about that "YOU", that you are using here, so as to convince me and others that it refutes indeed the indeterminacy about the first person experience displayed in the WM duplicat

Re: Theology or not theology (Re: COMP theology)

2012-03-29 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 29 Mar 2012, at 18:31, John Clark wrote: On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 Bruno Marchal wrote: > Identical bodies have identical minds, Yes. >but identical minds can have different bodies. Who cares? It's consciousness I'm interested in. We discuss only on the consequence of the comp hypothesis

Re: Theology or not theology (Re: COMP theology)

2012-03-29 Thread John Clark
On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 Quentin Anciaux wrote: > Comp (and MWI) is a deterministic theory. > Many Worlds is deterministic but I don't know about "comp" because "comp" is a homemade term never completely defined and used on this list and nowhere else. I don't even know if I agree with "comp". I wil

Re: Theology or not theology (Re: COMP theology)

2012-03-29 Thread John Clark
On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 Bruno Marchal wrote: > Identical bodies have identical minds, > Yes. >but identical minds can have different bodies. > Who cares? It's consciousness I'm interested in. > The universe does not know you are John Clark. You do. > In my symmetrical room example I know who J

Re: Theology or not theology (Re: COMP theology)

2012-03-29 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 28 Mar 2012, at 19:29, John Clark wrote: On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 4:40 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: >> If 2 different consciousnesses can not be distinguished in my symmetrical room from the first person point of view or from the third person point of view then it seems pointless to insist