Re: computer pain

From: Bruno Marchal <marchal.domain.name.hidden>
Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2007 13:34:13 +0100

Le 02-janv.-07, à 08:07, Stathis Papaioannou a écrit :

> You could speculate that the experience of digging holes involves the
> dirt, the shovel, robot sensors and effectors, the power supply as
> well as the central processor, which would mean that virtual reality
> by playing with just the central processor is impossible. This is
> perhaps what Colin Hales has been arguing, and is contrary to
> computationalism.


Again, putting the environment, with some level of details, in the
"generalized brain" is not contrary to comp. Only if you explicitly
mention that the shovel, or the sensors, or the power supply, .... are
not turing emulable, then that would be contrary to comp.

Bruno


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


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