Re: Will computationalism be refuted?

2017-10-05 Thread John Clark
On Tue, Oct 3, 2017 at 12:50 PM, Bruno Marchal wrote: ​>> ​ >> I can see why it would be bad news for Everett, but I don't see what it >> has to do with Computationalism.​ > > > ​> ​ > Well, it is rather obvious why you don't see this. It is because you stop > at step 3. > ​It's been a long time

Re: A profound lack of profundity (and soon "the starting point")

2017-10-05 Thread John Clark
On Sun, Oct 1, 2017 at 9:35 PM, Stathis Papaioannou wrote: ​> ​ >> I have a thought experiment of my own and this is the >> ​ ​ >> protocol: >> >>> 1) I have *TWO* coins, a regular coin and a two headed coin. >> >>> 2) I flip both coins. >> 3) Predict if *the one and only coin* will land heads or

Re: Maudlin's Computation and Consciousness

2017-10-05 Thread David Nyman
On 5 Oct 2017 16:06, "Bruno Marchal" wrote: On 05 Oct 2017, at 16:02, David Nyman wrote: On 5 October 2017 at 13:50, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > On 02 Oct 2017, at 15:07, David Nyman wrote: > > > > On 2 Oct 2017 1:58 p.m., "Bruno Marchal" wrote: > > Dear Evgenii, > > > On 28 Sep 2017, at 21:30,

Re: Maudlin's Computation and Consciousness

2017-10-05 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 05 Oct 2017, at 16:02, David Nyman wrote: On 5 October 2017 at 13:50, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 02 Oct 2017, at 15:07, David Nyman wrote: On 2 Oct 2017 1:58 p.m., "Bruno Marchal" wrote: Dear Evgenii, On 28 Sep 2017, at 21:30, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote: Long time ago you have discussed

Re: Maudlin's Computation and Consciousness

2017-10-05 Thread David Nyman
On 5 October 2017 at 13:50, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > On 02 Oct 2017, at 15:07, David Nyman wrote: > > > > On 2 Oct 2017 1:58 p.m., "Bruno Marchal" wrote: > > Dear Evgenii, > > > On 28 Sep 2017, at 21:30, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote: > > > > > Long time ago you have discussed Maudlin's paper. At that ti

Re: Maudlin's Computation and Consciousness

2017-10-05 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 02 Oct 2017, at 15:07, David Nyman wrote: On 2 Oct 2017 1:58 p.m., "Bruno Marchal" wrote: Dear Evgenii, On 28 Sep 2017, at 21:30, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote: Long time ago you have discussed Maudlin's paper. At that time I somehow did not get interested. Yet, other day I have got stron

Re: When you split the brain, do you split the person?

2017-10-05 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 04 Oct 2017, at 22:50, Brent Meeker wrote: On 10/4/2017 7:01 AM, Terren Suydam wrote: In this case the pronoun problems can be resolved by dint of the fact that the language processing areas of the brain are largely localized to one half. It's an interesting question to me whether th