On 3/28/07, Bruno Marchal <marchal.domain.name.hidden> wrote:
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> Le 26-mars-07, à 01:34, Stathis Papaioannou a écrit :
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> > Standard computationalism is just the theory that your brain could be
> > replaced with an appropriately configured digital computer and you
> > would not only act the same, you would also feel the same. Bruno goes
> > on to show that this entails there is no separate physical reality by
> > means of the UDA, but we can still talk about computationalism - the
> > predominant theory in cognitive science - without discussing the UDA.
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> Yes. And I intervene only when I find a contradiction between what is
> said, with the consequence of the UDA.
> I am also open to criticism of the UDA itself.
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> > And in any case, the ideas Brent and I have been discussing are still
> > relevant if computationalism is wrong and (again a separate matter)
> > there is only one universe.
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> Certainly.
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> Bruno
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> Then comes my ceterum censeo (applicable to the entire discussion) after
Bruno's Certainly : -- AS FAR AS WE KNOW --(today).
John
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Received on Wed Mar 28 2007 - 11:03:12 PDT