Re: Consciousness is information?

2009-04-22 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
2009/4/22 Brent Meeker : > The question was whether information was enough, or whether something > else is needed for consciousness.  I think that sequence is needed, > which we experience as the passage of time.  When you speak of > computations "going from A to B" do you suppose that this provi

Re: Consciousness is information?

2009-04-22 Thread Brent Meeker
Kelly wrote: > On Apr 21, 11:31 am, Bruno Marchal wrote: > >> We could say that a state A access to a state B if there is a >> universal machine (a universal number relation) transforming A into B. >> This works at the ontological level, or for the third person point of >> view. But if A is a

Re: Consciousness is information?

2009-04-22 Thread Brent Meeker
Stathis Papaioannou wrote: > 2009/4/22 Brent Meeker : > > >> The question was whether information was enough, or whether something >> else is needed for consciousness. I think that sequence is needed, >> which we experience as the passage of time. When you speak of >> computations "going from

Re: Consciousness is information?

2009-04-22 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 22 Apr 2009, at 08:55, Kelly wrote: > > On Apr 21, 11:31 am, Bruno Marchal wrote: >> We could say that a state A access to a state B if there is a >> universal machine (a universal number relation) transforming A into >> B. >> This works at the ontological level, or for the third person po

Re: Consciousness is information?

2009-04-22 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 21 Apr 2009, at 20:33, Brent Meeker wrote: > > I understand that the UD computes all different histories so they are > interleaved. But each particular computation consists of an ordered > set > of states. These states can belong to more than one sequence of > conscious experience. But th

Re: Consciousness is information?

2009-04-22 Thread Bruno Marchal
John, On 21 Apr 2009, at 21:30, John Mikes wrote: > Bruno, > you made my day when you wrote: > "SOMEHOW" - in: > "...The machine has to be "runned" or "executed" relatively to a > universal machine. You need the Peano or Robinson axiom to define > such states and sequences of states. > You

Re: Consciousness is information?

2009-04-22 Thread Kelly
On Apr 21, 2:33 pm, Brent Meeker wrote: > These states can belong to more than one sequence of > conscious experience. But the question is whether the order of the > states in the computation is always the same as their order in any > sequence of conscious experience in which they appear? For ex

Re: Consciousness is information?

2009-04-22 Thread Brent Meeker
Kelly wrote: > On Apr 21, 2:33 pm, Brent Meeker wrote: > >> These states can belong to more than one sequence of >> conscious experience. But the question is whether the order of the >> states in the computation is always the same as their order in any >> sequence of conscious experience in w

Re: Consciousness is information?

2009-04-22 Thread Jason Resch
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 1:55 AM, Kelly wrote: > > On Apr 21, 11:31 am, Bruno Marchal wrote: >> We could say that a state A access to a state B if there is a >> universal machine (a universal number relation) transforming A into B. >> This works at the ontological level, or for the third person p