Russell Standish wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 25, 2006 at 04:48:01PM +0200, Bruno Marchal wrote:
> >
> > > The UD is
> > > quite possibly enough to emulate the full Multiverse (this is sort of
> > > where
> > > Bruno's partail results are pointing), which we know contain conscious
> > > processes.
> >
> > Of course a non-computationalist will say that it contains only
> > "zombie".
>
> A non-computationalist will believe that the Multiverse contains
> conscious processes (if they believe in a Multiverse at all).
Only if they believe they are *in* the multiverse.
If they are Platonists, they might believe that Plato's heaven
exists and contains abstract counterparts of everything existing
concretely on "Earth", and much more besides. But as
non-computationalists,
they need not believe that an abstract algorithm -- even their
own abstract counterpart in Heaven -- is conscious. As standard
Platonists, they believe *they* are in Earth.
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