Le 11-janv.-09, à 17:55, Brent Meeker a écrit :
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> Stathis Papaioannou wrote:
>> 2009/1/11 Brent Meeker <meekerdb.domain.name.hidden>:
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>>> I'm suggesting that "running a state" is incoherent.
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>> A machine running a program goes through a sequence of states.
>> Consider 20 consecutive states, s1 to s20, which give rise to several
>> moments of consciousness. Would you say that running the sequence s1
>> to s20 on a single machine m1 will give a different conscious
>> experience to running s1 to s10 on m1 and separately s11 to s20 on m2?
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> I'm suggesting that there has to be something that makes the states a
> sequence instead of just a set or an aggregate.
I agree.
What you need is a Universal system/machine/language/whatever. To say
that something is a state in a computation, or that something is a
computation, you need a universal machine capable of producing that
computation.
Now, assuming the "yes doctor" entails that the universal system does
not need to be physical, and that the very term "physical" will have to
be explained in term of purely combinatorial or arithmetical universal
system. The explanatory gain is fabulous, then.
Bruno
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> Brent
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Received on Mon Jan 12 2009 - 04:49:40 PST