Rex Allen wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 3:21 AM, Brent Meeker<meekerdb.domain.name.hidden> wrote:
>
>>> The living brain and the executing computer program both just
>>> represent the contents of my conscious experience, in the same way
>>> that a map represents the actual terrain.
>>>
>> When you set fire to a map the land doesn't burn.
>>
>>
>
> If you set fire to the computer running the simulation of my brain and
> it's virtual environment, would my conscious experience burn?
No, it would cease. But note that you've changed to a virtual
environment in which the whole world is simulated - not just your brain
interacting with an external world. I think that's relevant.
Intelligence and consciousness only exist relative to an environment
because to be conscious is to be conscious of something, i.e. to have a
point-of-view.
Brent
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Received on Fri Aug 14 2009 - 09:33:43 PDT