Re: computationalism and supervenience

From: Bruno Marchal <marchal.domain.name.hidden>
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2006 12:08:46 +0200

Le 21-août-06, à 22:49, Brent Meeker a écrit :

> But leaving that aside, I think there is another question in play:
> What kind of
> computation implements intelligence? ...consciousness? Is it every
> computation,
> with differences only of degree? Or are there distinct requirements?

You need at least some relatively self-referentially correct machine.
The machine has to be self-referentially correct relatively to its most
probable computations.

To have reflexive consciousness the self-referentially correct machine
must be sufficiently rich in introspective ability, like lobian machine
are.

Bruno



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


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