On Sat, Jan 5, 2013 at 7:10 AM, Bruno Marchal <marc...@ulb.ac.be> wrote: > > On 03 Jan 2013, at 18:13, Craig Weinberg wrote: > > > > On Thursday, January 3, 2013 10:45:01 AM UTC-5, yanniru wrote: > >> >> BTW my stichk is that consciousness >> comes from discrete compactified space that is arithmetic, in both the >> megaverse and in each universe. >> Richard >> > > Why would consciousness come from discrete compactified space? To me, all > that this kind of explanation does is shift the mystery of consciousness > from a person to a space. It ascribes the power of feeling and thinking to > an arithmetic idea rather than a person, leaving us right back where we > started - asking why does an arithmetic idea have thoughts and feelings. > > > > > Because we assume the brain works like a computer. Then, no computer can > distinguish an arithmetical reality supportinh his personhood from any other > reality supporting Turing universality, unless it belongs to a simulation in > some normal world(s) supplied by infinitely many corrections (that is we are > purposefully failed by liars). > > Bruno > > Many investigators of consciousness hypothesize that consciousness is not computable and may be the result of Godelian incompleteness. I had thought that you Bruno were of the same mind. Is that so? The above paragraph makes me wonder> Richard
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