On 17 August 2014 07:14, meekerdb <meeke...@verizon.net> wrote: > > Both consciousness and physics supervene on the computations, which > exist necessarily. Consciousness does not supervene on the physics. > > Yes, I agreed to that. The question was can consciousness supervene on > computations that do not instantiate any physics? I think not. >
Would you mind clarifying this? I'm not what it means that consciousness can only supervene on computations that instantiate physics. For example - assuming my brain is doing computations, how is it instantiating physics? Or did you mean that the brain is a physical object, and hence instantiated within physics, so to speak? > And then the other question is can physics supervene on computations that > do not instantiate any consciousness? I'm not sure about that. > If I read this arright, which I probably don't, this would be equivalent to comp generating universes with no observers, which I imagine is by definition impossible. But maybe the answer to the previous question will clarify this one. -- 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/d/optout.
