David Nyman wrote:
> Why talk of zombies? A zombie is a being that is supposedly conceivable
> (though not to me) as being 'unconscious' despite apparently possessing
> the structural/ behavioural prerequisites of consciousness. I was
> referring to the issue that, if the characteristics of consciousness
> are indeed correlated with specific physical activities, then aspects
> of consciousness would necessarily *co-vary* with physical
> instantiation. To avoid this, comp would need to adopt a substitution
> level that preserved the invariance of whatever 'physical activities'
> were deemed relevant to consciousness (as I suggest above).
Computationalism deems that no pphsycial activity is essential
to consicousnes (except insofar as it is essential to computation).
However, "comp" may not be the same as computationalism.
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Received on Mon Sep 04 2006 - 18:02:53 PDT