On 13/10/2015 7:57 pm, Stathis Papaioannou wrote:
On 13 October 2015 at 11:48, Bruce Kellett <bhkell...@optusnet.com.au
<mailto:bhkell...@optusnet.com.au>> wrote:
On 13/10/2015 9:46 am, Jason Resch wrote:
The double-slit experiment is evidence of platonic computation
being responsible for our consciousness, along with many other
properties seen in physics.
Come again? How on earth do you make that out? The double slit
experiment is evidence for quantum superpositions of waves and/or
particles. Nothing to do with consciousness. As for the rest of
physics??????
The theory has survived numerous tests, without being
disproven, which is all we can hope for as evidence for any
theory.
Quantum mechanics is a well-tested theory. Computationalism is
not. Computationalism can't even get the basic physics right, much
less explain how the universe came to exist long before
consciousness emerged.
Computationalism is the theory that a computer could simulate not only
the brain's behaviour, but also consciousness. It is possible that the
brain utilises non-computable physics, in which case computationalism
would be false. Is that what you believe?
You present a false dichotomy. The brain might well be Turing emulable,
and computationalism false. That would be the case if matter is primary
and arithmetic merely a formal game.
Bruce
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