Re: [fonc] Separating computation from the machine

2013-04-23 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 02:05:07PM -0500, Tristan Slominski wrote: That alone seems to me to dismiss the concern that mind uploading would not be possible (despite that I think it's a wrong and a horrible idea personally :D) I'm curious why you think that it's wrong (?) and horrible.

[fonc] Separating computation from the machine

2013-04-17 Thread Loup Vaillant-David
On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 09:25:19PM +0200, John Nilsson wrote: This discussion reminds me of http://www.ageofsignificance.org/ It's a philosophical analysis of what computation means and how, or if, it can be separated from the machine implementing it. The author argues that it cannot. If I