RE: Re: Only Existence is necessary?

George Levy writes: StephenPaulKingwrote: Iwouldliketopointoutthatyoumayhaveinadvertentlyveeredinto theproblemthatIseeinthe"YesDoctor"belief!Itisentirely unverifiable. Itisunverifiablefromthe3rdpersonperspective.Fromthefirst personperspectiveitisperfectlyverifiable."I"willnotobserveany

Re: Re: Only Existence is necessary?

Hi Stathis, The paper is found here: http://consc.net/papers/rock.html - Original Message - From: Stathis Papaioannou To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2006 9:55 PM Subject: RE: Re: Only Existence is necessary? Stephen,I

Re: Re: Only Existence is necessary?

Hi Hal, - Original Message - From: Hal Finney [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2006 10:55 PM Subject: RE: Re: Only Existence is necessary? Stathis Papaioannou [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: snip Now, if any computation is implemented

RE: Re: Only Existence is necessary?

Stephen, I am reminded ofDavid Chalmer'spaper recentlymentioned by Hal Finney, "Does a Rock Implement Every Finite State Automaton?", which looks at the idea that any physical state such as the vibration of atoms in a rock can be mapped onto any computation, if you look at it the right

RE: Re: Only Existence is necessary?

Stathis Papaioannou [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am reminded of David Chalmer's paper recently mentioned by Hal Finney, Does a Rock Implement Every Finite State Automaton?, which looks at the idea that any physical state such as the vibration of atoms in a rock can be mapped onto any