Re: Tegmark is too physics-centric

2004-03-09 Thread Bruno Marchal
Hi Russell, At 11:50 09/03/04 +1100, Russell Standish wrote: Yes, in your thesis you often talk about survival under replacement of a digital brain (cerveau digital). Digital simply means operates with 1s and 0s. Since any analogue value can be represented arbitrarily accurately by a digital

Re: Tegmark is too physics-centric

2004-03-09 Thread Bruno Marchal
Hi Stephen, It seems to me that COMP is more general that computationalism since it seems to include certain unfalsifiable postulations that are independent of computationalism per say, AR, to be specific. A can be unfalsifiable, and B can be unfalsifiable, but this does not entail that A