Re: It's a mad mad mad world (was computationalism and supervenience)]

From: Bruno Marchal <marchal.domain.name.hidden>
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2006 11:53:38 +0200

Le 21-août-06, à 22:01, George Levy a écrit :

> Slight correction:
>
> If you are sane then you're not sure that you are sane,

OK.



> then you would have to be crazy to say "Yes Doctor."......


Why? You can hope. Like you can hope you are sane, and that you will
remain sane after a comp-substitution. You would only be crazy if you
believe you can communicate, in some thrid person way, that you will
survive, or that you have survived such a substitution. You would be
crazy if you belief that "science has shown the human brain is a
machine". You would be crazy if you forget that comp is a (meta)
religion ....


> ...................yet a man could say it but not a "sane" machine.


?



>
> Bruno's quest based on machine psychology runs the risk of leaving
> unanswered the really big quest based on human psychology.

Human psychology is interesting, but if comp is correct it is just a
sub-branch of machine psychology.

Bruno

http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/


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