Re: Dreaming On

From: Flammarion <peterdjones.domain.name.hidden>
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2009 06:47:46 -0700 (PDT)

On 30 Aug, 07:54, Bruno Marchal <marc....domain.name.hidden> wrote:
> On 29 Aug 2009, at 20:34, Flammarion wrote:
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> > On 28 Aug, 18:02, Bruno Marchal <marc....domain.name.hidden> wrote:
> >> On 28 Aug 2009, at 17:58, Brent Meeker wrote:
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> >> If the physical laws are turing emulable, then whatever is  
> >> responsible
> >> for my consciousness can be Turing emulable at some level (I assume
> >> some form of naturalism/materialism or computationalism).OK? If not,
> >> your brain (generalized or not) does not obeys to the laws of  
> >> physics.
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> > That may buy you no more than "mere" simulation. The CTM is a
> > stronger claim than the computability of physics. it means that you
> > will
> > get actual implementation (strong AI) and not just simulation (weak
> > AI)
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> In that sense, I am OK here. Actually strong AI is even weaker than  
> CTM.

Be that as it may, neither is directly implied by the computability of
physics

>My reconstitution can believe wrongly that he is me, yet  
> conscious. But I was assuming some naturalism here, and if the  
> physical laws are computable, and I still say no to the doctor, then  
> my identity is no more defined by the computation, but by the actual  
> matter which constitutes me,

That is one reason for saying no. Another is that your identity *is*
given
by the computation (in line with the idea that PM is propertiless),
and that
the computation needs to run "on the metal" (at 00 levelsof
virtualisation)
to be genuinely conscious and not just an ersatz functional
equivalent.

>and then comp (CTM) is no more correct  
> (although strong AI could still be correct).
>
> Bruno
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> http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/
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