2012/10/10 Bruno Marchal <marc...@ulb.ac.be>: > > On 09 Oct 2012, at 18:58, Alberto G. Corona wrote: > >> It may be a zombie or not. I can´t know. >> >> The same applies to other persons. It may be that the world is made of >> zombie-actors that try to cheat me, but I have an harcoded belief in >> the conventional thing. Maybe it is, because otherwise, I will act >> in strange and self destructive ways. I would act as a paranoic, after >> that, as a psycopath (since they are not humans). That will not be >> good for my success in society. Then, I doubt that I will have any >> surviving descendant that will develop a zombie-solipsist >> epistemology. >> >> However there are people that believe these strange things. Some >> autists do not recognize humans as beings like him. Some psychopaths >> too, in a different way. There is no authistic or psichopathic >> epistemology because the are not functional enough to make societies >> with universities and philosophers. That is the whole point of >> evolutionary epistemology. > > > > If comp leads to solipsism, I will apply for being a plumber. > > I don't bet or believe in solipsism. > > But you were saying "that a *conscious* robot" can lack a soul. See the > quote just below. > > That is what I don't understand. > > Bruno >
I think that It is not comp what leads to solipsism but any existential stance that only accept what is certain and discard what is only belief based on conjectures. It can go no further than "cogito ergo sum" > >> >> >> >> 2012/10/9 Bruno Marchal <marc...@ulb.ac.be>: >>> >>> >>> On 09 Oct 2012, at 13:29, Alberto G. Corona wrote: >>> >>> >>> But still after this reasoning, I doubt that the self conscious >>> philosopher robot have the kind of thing, call it a soul, that I have. >>> >>> >>> ? >>> >>> You mean it is a zombie? >>> >>> I can't conceive consciousness without a soul. Even if only the universal >>> one. >>> So I am not sure what you mean by soul. >>> >>> 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 >>> everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en. >> >> >> >> >> -- >> Alberto. >> >> -- >> 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 >> everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en. >> > > 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 > everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en. > -- Alberto. -- 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 everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en.
