On Tue, Oct 01, 2013 at 10:09:03AM -0700, meekerdb wrote: > On 10/1/2013 4:13 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: > >Note also that the expression "computation have qualia" can be > >misleading. A computation has no qualia, strictly speaking. Only a > >person supported by an infinity of computation can be said to have > >qualia, or to live qualia. > > Why an infinity of computation?? That would preclude my building an > intelligent robot having qualia, since it's computations would > always be finite. And I doubt there is room in my head for infinite > computations - certainly not digital ones. >
He is alluding to the universal dovetailer here, which contains an infinite number of distinct computations that implement any given conscious state. However, it is not clear that it is necessary for it to be infinite - in a nonrebust world that doesn't contain a UD, we still consider the possbility of conscious computations in the MGA. Cheers -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Professor of Mathematics hpco...@hpcoders.com.au University of New South Wales http://www.hpcoders.com.au ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
