On Saturday, January 5, 2013 7:10:13 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal 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). >
So instead of assuming that we are conscious, you assume that the brain is a computer and computation is conscious. Why is that an improvement? Craig > > Bruno > > > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/everything-list/-/Eq5Ru03zbcEJ. > To post to this group, send email to everyth...@googlegroups.com<javascript:> > . > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > everything-li...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. > 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/everything-list/-/5y_-Kzk1gloJ. 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.
