2009/9/1 Flammarion <peterdjones.domain.name.hidden>:
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> On 1 Sep, 15:00, David Nyman <david.ny....domain.name.hidden> wrote:
>> On 1 Sep, 13:08, Flammarion <peterdjo....domain.name.hidden> wrote:
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>> > >That is the point. I should say that my starting position
>> > > before encountering Bruno's views was against the tenability of CTM on
>> > > the basis of any consistent notion of physical process. Bruno hasn't
>> > > yet persuaded me that an explicitly non-computational theory of mind
>> > > on some such basis is actually untenable. But he has awakened me to
>> > > the reverse realisation that a non-materialist world-view can tenably
>> > > be founded on CTM
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>> > coupled with Platonism.
>>
>> With respect, Peter, you continue to miss the point. What Bruno has
>> demonstrated is that CTM as a mind-body theory (which is what UDA-8
>> shows it must be) makes no ontological commitment *by its very
>> virtuality*. Or rather, any such commitment is shown to be vacuous.
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> There's got to be somehting at the bottom of the stack. Bruno
> wants to substitue matetr with Platonia as the substrate.
> If there is nothing at the bottom
> of the stack, there are no virtualisations running higher up.
There's no bottom. Why would you need one ? It's turtle all the way down !
The bottom of the stack is a *relative* notion.
>> Consequently under CTM, one is committed to RITSIAR=virtual, not
>> RITSIAR=platonic.
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> CTM only suggests that I *could* be virtualised. Alternatively
> I could be running on the metal. I do wish you guys would undertand
> that
> Possible X => actually X
> is a fallacy.
>
>> Now, one obviously has the option *precisely in
>> virtue of this* to dismiss CTM as itself vacuous. But this is the
>> value of the insight: its force is to commit you to these explicit
>> choices, and hence to cease vacillating between incompatible
>> theoretical conjunctions.
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> No incompatibility has been demonstrated.
> >
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