On Mon, Aug 08, 2016 at 10:01:49AM -0700, Brent Meeker wrote: > I think Russell is just saying we take it as an added > axiom/assumption that the duplicated brain/bodies must have separate > consciousnesses at least as soon as they have different perceptions. > This is exactly what you would predict from supposing that > consciousness is a product of physical processes in the brain - > something that is supported by lots and lots of evidence. > > I don't think this does much to invalidate Bruno's argument. He > just wants to show that the physical is derivative, not that it's > irrelevant. > > Brent
Physicality in the thought experiment seems like a red herring to me. We can just as easily consider running the duplicated consciousnesses in virtual reality simulators of the two cities. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Senior Research Fellow hpco...@hpcoders.com.au Economics, Kingston University http://www.hpcoders.com.au ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
