---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: David Nyman <david.ny...@gmail.com> Date: 15 February 2014 23:45 Subject: RE: Better Than the Chinese Room To: Craig Weinberg <whatsons...@gmail.com>
Can you give me a principled distinction between reproducing and copying? David Sent from my Windows Phone ------------------------------ From: Craig Weinberg Sent: 15/02/2014 23:06 To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Cc: da...@davidnyman.com Subject: Re: Better Than the Chinese Room On Saturday, February 15, 2014 3:43:29 PM UTC-5, David Nyman wrote: > On 15 February 2014 18:32, Craig Weinberg <whats...@gmail.com> wrote: > > You can't copy awareness. Awareness is what is uncopyable, not just >> because awareness is special, but because it is ontologically perpendicular >> to the possibility of simulation. All attempts to copy awareness result in >> a doll. > > > Does that then entail that if a conscious amoeba were to fission, the > resulting two amoebae would be unconscious? Or only one of them? > That's not a copy of an amoeba, reproducing its body is part of what an amoeba does. > > David > -- 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. -- 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.
