Le 10-mars-07, à 04:30, Tom Caylor a écrit :
> Here a diagram would be useful. The reductionist tendency seems to be > to lump all of consciousness into the "input interpretting" box and > "explain it" in terms of smaller parts making up an autonomous > machine. Hence, now that it is all explained and we are a machine, > there is no room for real morality and we can do whatever we want. (I > think I heard an Amen! from Brent.) This is a good description of comp before Gödel and Church's thesis. After, comp makes such interpretations provably wrong or inconsistent. To understand comp + Gödel forces us toward more modesty, including the modesty in front on any self-referentially correct (by constuction) universal machine or entity. Bruno http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
