Le 24-mai-05, à 14:03, Lee Corbin a écrit :
> Yes, but I don't think that there is any answer to the "hard problem".
> Concretely, I conjecture that of the 100000^5000 or so possible strings
> of 5000 words in the English language, not a single one of them solves
> this problem.
And in French ? ;)
> In particular, the concept will
> have migrated from a mix of 1st and 3rd person notions, to
> entirely 3rd person notions.
This has been done. (Not yet in english, I mean with all the
technical details).
> I speculate that after this
> occurs, people won't consider the old 1st person notion to
> be of much value (after all, you can't really use it to
> communicate with anyone about anything).
I hope you are wrong. But comp, fortunately predicts the contrary, and
this in
a pure third person way. Remember we *can* talk in a third person way
about the first person notions. And comp predicts that for any
introspective
machine, its first person knowledge grows more quickly than its third
person knowledge. Admittedly with some definitions, conjectures,
and hypotheses, but that will always be the case in science, as you say
often yourself. But so the explanation is testable.
Bruno
http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/
Received on Tue May 24 2005 - 08:58:44 PDT