Actually I'd like to know where the contradiction is too (and I have read Bruno's papers, and "The Amoeba's Secret", and of course Bruno has done his best to teach me some modal logic...)
...but I still have difficulty following the MGA. It has been explained (at least at times) as showing that "if phys supervenience holds, then a recording of a conscious computation would also be conscious" - and (I'm told) this is absurd. Bruce said (I think) that although this *seems* absurd, it may not be. That is, one can't argue from incredulity. That seems like a reasonable comment. The MGA also appears - to me, at least - to show that (1) (assuming phys sup) the same conscious state could supervene on two different physical states (AND or OR for example) (2) (assuming p.s.) quite a lot of the physical stuff could be removed from the setup without making a difference. (3) (assuming p.s.) Broken gates, say, could be driven to give the correct output by playing back *some* of a recording, giving a mix of recording and computation All the above seems to put dents in physical supervenience, but I can't see an outright contradiction - which probably means I have missed something important. So, I'd really like to know - what contradiction? :-) -- 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.
