Re: Numbers, Machine and Father Ted

From: 1Z <peterdjones.domain.name.hidden>
Date: Thu, 09 Nov 2006 04:53:53 -0800

Bruno Marchal wrote:
> Peter Jones (1Z) a écrit :
>
> >> Most people would not say "yes doctor" to a process that recorded
> >> their
> >> brain on a tape a left it in a filing cabinet. Yet, that is all you
> >> can
> >> get out of the timeless world of Plato's heaven (programme vs
> >> process).
>
>
> Why? Plato's heaven is full of mathematical process, which looks non
> dynamical from outside, like a block universe, but can be dynamical
> from inside.
If you can show that subjective experience exists in Platonia,
you can use that to show that some things will "seem" dynamical.
If you can show that there a dynamic processes in Platonia,
you can use that to show there are running computations
and therefore minds, and therefore experiences.
But can you do both without circularity?
> Bruno
>
>
> http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/
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