Re: Movie graph and computational supervenience

2009-02-03 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 02 Feb 2009, at 18:20, Brent Meeker wrote: > > Bruno Marchal wrote: >> >> On 31 Jan 2009, at 12:47, Quentin Anciaux wrote: >> >> >> >> >> >>> Ok then for the particular run I describe, the two programs (the >>> original and the one modified by stub subpart) have the same >>> states... >>>

Re: Movie graph and computational supervenience

2009-02-02 Thread Brent Meeker
Bruno Marchal wrote: > > On 31 Jan 2009, at 12:47, Quentin Anciaux wrote: > > > > > >> Ok then for the particular run I describe, the two programs (the >> original and the one modified by stub subpart) have the same states... >> So for this particular run, we should still accept that the s

Re: Movie graph and computational supervenience

2009-02-02 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 31 Jan 2009, at 12:47, Quentin Anciaux wrote: > Ok then for the particular run I describe, the two programs (the > original and the one modified by stub subpart) have the same > states... So for this particular run, we should still accept that > the stub modified program is conscious

Re: Movie graph and computational supervenience

2009-01-31 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2009/1/30 Bruno Marchal > > On 29 Jan 2009, at 20:42, Quentin Anciaux wrote: > > > >> >> Why would the movie graph rule out a notion of *computational* >> supervenience. We can keep comp and abandon materialism. We can still say >> yes to the digitalist doctor, by betting on our more probable >>

Re: Movie graph and computational supervenience

2009-01-30 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 29 Jan 2009, at 20:42, Quentin Anciaux wrote: > > > Why would the movie graph rule out a notion of *computational* > supervenience. We can keep comp and abandon materialism. We can > still say yes to the digitalist doctor, by betting on our more > probable relative computational histori

Re: Movie graph and computational supervenience

2009-01-29 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 29 Jan 2009, at 16:29, Günther Greindl wrote: > > Hi Quentin, > >> So when do the AI becomes a zombie when I run it relatively to me ? >> after how much stub subpart (I'm talking about function in a program, >> not about a physical computer on which the said program is run) have >> been repla

Re: Movie graph and computational supervenience

2009-01-29 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2009/1/29 Bruno Marchal > > On 28 Jan 2009, at 21:25, Quentin Anciaux wrote: > > > > 2009/1/28 Bruno Marchal > >> >> >> Hi Quentin, >> >> > I was thinking about the movie graph and its conclusions. It >> > concludes that it is absurd for the connsciousness to supervene on >> > the movie hence p

Re: Movie graph and computational supervenience

2009-01-29 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 28 Jan 2009, at 21:25, Quentin Anciaux wrote: > > > 2009/1/28 Bruno Marchal > > > Hi Quentin, > > > I was thinking about the movie graph and its conclusions. It > > concludes that it is absurd for the connsciousness to supervene on > > the movie hence physical supervenience is false. > > > O

Re: Movie graph and computational supervenience

2009-01-29 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 28 Jan 2009, at 21:16, Pete Carlton wrote: > > What is wrong? In my opinion, it is that you are thinking that > anything at all exists "in addition to" or "supervening on" the > gates, or the movie, or the functions. > > I think you have a picture in your mind like this: let's say there > are

Re: Movie graph and computational supervenience

2009-01-29 Thread Günther Greindl
Hi Quentin, > So when do the AI becomes a zombie when I run it relatively to me ? > after how much stub subpart (I'm talking about function in a program, > not about a physical computer on which the said program is run) have > been replaced ? > > Will answer more later. Ok, have you looked a

Re: Movie graph and computational supervenience

2009-01-29 Thread Quentin Anciaux
Hi, 2009/1/29 Günther Greindl > > Quentin, > > you are, it seems to me, simply reproducing the MGA. You are assuming a > (material) computer on which the AI+environment run - relatively to us, No, I'm just assuming the program (for example written in java). > > this will never be conscious -

Re: Movie graph and computational supervenience

2009-01-29 Thread Günther Greindl
Quentin, you are, it seems to me, simply reproducing the MGA. You are assuming a (material) computer on which the AI+environment run - relatively to us, this will never be conscious - but it _could_ be conscious relatively to other computations in Platonia. To make an AI conscious relatively

Re: Movie graph and computational supervenience

2009-01-29 Thread Quentin Anciaux
Maybe I wasn't clear enough in my explanations, so I'll try to be clearer. Let's suppose we have a "conscious" program (an AI), running in a simulated environment. Let us record the run of the environment+AI. Then restore the state of the program just at the start of the record. I can now select

Re: Movie graph and computational supervenience

2009-01-28 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2009/1/28 Bruno Marchal > > > Hi Quentin, > > > I was thinking about the movie graph and its conclusions. It > > concludes that it is absurd for the connsciousness to supervene on > > the movie hence physical supervenience is false. > > > OK. It is a reductio ad absurdo. It assumes that consciou

Re: Movie graph and computational supervenience

2009-01-28 Thread Pete Carlton
What is wrong? In my opinion, it is that you are thinking that anything at all exists "in addition to" or "supervening on" the gates, or the movie, or the functions. I think you have a picture in your mind like this: let's say there are two side-by-side computers, and let's say the one on t

Re: Movie graph and computational supervenience

2009-01-28 Thread Bruno Marchal
Hi Quentin, > I was thinking about the movie graph and its conclusions. It > concludes that it is absurd for the connsciousness to supervene on > the movie hence physical supervenience is false. OK. It is a reductio ad absurdo. It assumes that consciousness supervenes on the physical ac