Stathis Papaioannou wrote:
> Well, I think I have a better understanding now of the ideas leading me to start this thread - thanks to Bruno, Quentin and the other contributors. Moreover, I am leaning towards fundamentally changing my views on the implementation problem: if computationalism is true, then it doesn't seem to make much sense to say that computations are implemented as a result of physical processes, even if a separate physical reality did exist. It may yet be the case that consciousness is only the result of special physical processes, perhaps brains and digital computers but not rocks or the mere existence of computations as mathematical objects, but then this would entail giving up computationalism. Putting constraints on which computations contribute to the measure of consciousness, as I understood Jesse Mazer's suggestion to be, may also be true, but it is debatable whether this preserves computationalism either.
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> Stathis Papaioannou
There is a very impoertant difference between "computations do
not require a physical basis" and "computations do not
require any *particular* physical basis" (ie computations can be
physical
implemented by a wide variety of systems)
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Received on Thu Jul 27 2006 - 06:52:26 PDT