Re: computationalism and supervenience

From: Bruno Marchal <marchal.domain.name.hidden>
Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2006 11:14:38 +0200

Le 05-sept.-06, à 20:49, 1Z a écrit :

> That is the answer Stathis wants, but it doesn't work. Whether a
> computation
> is self-interpreting or not is itself a matter of interpretation, given
> his premises.
> He seems to need some sort of interpretation-independently
> self-interpreting system
> to start the ball rolling (= a Prime Mover).


It is here that theoretical computer science provides a solution.
It is hard to explain without digging more in the mathematical property
of the Fi and Wi, etc.
I am searching some ways to do that. It *is* counterituitive.
Note that this is explained in the second part of the SANE papers, and
in all details (albeit concisely) in the Elsevier paper.

Bruno


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


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