On 24 Aug 2005, at 02:45, chales1.domain.name.hidden wrote:
> I can't even get past the axioms of COMP. They just don’t hold
> unless I delude myself that the universe is driven by some
> mechanism implementing the underlying 'ruleness' we observe.
I don't think so at all. If comp is true then there is no primitive
Universe at all, and observable reality is, a priori, not computable
(I mean turing-emulable). This is obvious if you follow the Universal
Dovetailer Argument, so I will not explain, and I will just refer you
to my URL).
> Understanding consciousness is my goal and playing around with
> human generated symbols symbols seems to be diverting good thinking
> away from the thing that is actually responsible for consciousness
> - the natural world.
Only if comp is false, but that is coherent with what you say above.
Indeed with comp you need to explain the belief in a "natural world"
from an average of machine first person point of view. Good for me
because I am searching what the "natural world" is and where it comes
from.
Bruno
http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/
Received on Fri Aug 26 2005 - 11:19:42 PDT