Re: Can mind be a computation if physics is fundamental?

From: Brent Meeker <meekerdb.domain.name.hidden>
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 23:55:02 -0700

David Nyman wrote:
...
> Now, you don't of course have to accept COMP. But if you want to be a
> physical realist, it means you can only hang on to the computational
> explanation of mind by eliminating the mind itself from reality.
> Personally, not being committed to such an explanation, this doesn't
> in itself constitute my problem with current physical accounts. The
> alternative is rather that physics as an account of mind must be
> incomplete, or else it is wrong. But that's another story.

Is the physics account of life incomplete or wrong? Do you consider "life" to have been
eliminated?

Brent

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