On 8/14/2014 8:32 PM, Russell Standish wrote:
On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 08:12:30PM -0700, meekerdb wrote:
That does seem strange, but I don't know that it strikes me as
*absurd*. Isn't it clearer that a recording is not a computation?
And so if consciousness supervened on a recording it would prove
that consciousness did not require computation?
To be precise "supervening on the playback of a recording". Playback
of a recording _is_ a computation too, just a rather simple one.
In other words:
#include <stdio.h>
int main()
{
printf("hello world!\n");
return 1;
}
is very much a computer program (and a playback of recording of the
words "hello world" when run). I could change "hello world" to the contents of
Wikipedia, to illustrate the point more forcibly.
OK. So do you think consciousness supervenes on such a simple computation - one that's
functionally identical with a recording? Or does instantiating consciousness require some
degree of complexity such that CC comes into play?
What do you think of the requirement that consciousness (and the computation on which it
supervenes) have some causal reference to environment to give them meaning? It seems to
me this is a different, and additional, requirement over and above CC.
Brent
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