Re: Maudlin's Demon (Argument)

From: Bruno Marchal <marchal.domain.name.hidden>
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 14:07:27 +0200

Le 11-oct.-06, à 05:46, George Levy a écrit :


<snip: I will comment at ease later>


> Therefore from the point of view of the second machine, the first
> machine appears conscious. Note that for the purpose of the argument
> WE don't have to assume initially that the second machine IS
> conscious, only that it can detect if the first machine is conscious.
> Now once we establish that the first machine is conscious we can infer
> that the second machine is also conscious simply because it is
> identical.


How could any machine detect that another machine is conscious? I am
not sure this makes sense imo. We have to come back on this in late
november.



> I'll be traveling to France in early November. We'll leave the
> detailed discussion for later in November.

I go to Bergen (Norway) tomorrow where I will present the AUDA
(Arithmetical UDA). The list has receive the info, see here:
http://www.mail-archive.com/everything-list.domain.name.hidden/msg11097.html

We will most probably have some opportunity to e-talk before your trip
in France,

Bye,

Bruno


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


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