Re: how to define ASSA

2007-10-07 Thread Bruno Marchal
Le 05-oct.-07, à 19:56, Brent Meeker a écrit : > > Saibal Mitra wrote: >> 1) looks better because there is no unambiguous definition of "next". >> However, I don't understand the "shared by everyone" part. Different >> persons are different programs who cannot exactly represent the >> "observer

Re: how to define ASSA (was: The ASSA leads to a unique utilitarism)

2007-10-07 Thread Russell Standish
We're not getting very far with this. Let me put some alternative equivalent versions of the ASSA as I use it. The ASSA is the assumption that the SSSA applies to the question of what our "next OM" will be. Alternatively: Given an assumed "birth OM", the ASSA is the assumption that our current

Re: Maudlin's Demon (Argument)

2007-10-07 Thread George Levy
Bruno Marchal wrote: > I think that Maudlin refers to the conjunction of the comp hyp and > supervenience, where consciousness is supposed to be linked (most of > the time in a sort of "real-time" way) to the *computational activity* > of the brain, and not to the history of any of the state o