I wrote (to Juergen Schmidhuber):
>Before going into such technics it would help us if you told
>us what is wrong with the comp 1-person indeterminism
>in the simple self-duplication experiment.
>We discuss that before, but I am still not sure to
>be able to make sense of your critics.
Rereading
On 05-Oct-01, Marchal wrote:
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>> Seeing that there is no rigerous way to define what actually
>> constitues a physical computer, and what does not, does it make any
>> sense to say "my desktop computer" has become conscious?
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> Your desktop computer cannot be conscious, nor can my brain.
Neil Lion wrote:
>This is true, but the current state of a computer can always be represented
>within a finite string. Perhaps the computer cannot ever realize this, as
>the description will be a part of the computer (ad-infinitum), but as long
>as I see myself as seperate from the process of the
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