On 9/15/2016 4:44 AM, Stathis Papaioannou wrote:
On 15 September 2016 at 05:25, Stephen Paul King
<stephe...@provensecure.com <mailto:stephe...@provensecure.com>> wrote:
Hi Stathis,
I really like this explanation of supervenience. I only worry
that we need a lot more detail, of how exactly "A and B are
unaffected if the timing, order or duration of a and b are
changed." works. AFAIK, this requirement looks a lot like mutual
independence, but it clearly can not be. There must be a non-zero
probability of transitions within the processes at each level of
the tower, something like a 'time' at each.
Information about timing, order or duration of a and b that does not
change a and b cannot change A and B either. This follows from the
definition of supervenience.
That brings me to my next question: Where do we get the
inequality of entropy when it is NOT at equilibrium for a system.
Deriving an arrow of time is not just a matter of figuring out how
to chain labels in observer moments, we need an actual transition
from one state to another in our theory.
Does anyone here have a nice explanation of Markov Processes that
they could point me to?
If there are real processes occurring in real time, this is not
necessarily relevant to the supervenient mental processes. A future
mental state could be computed in real time before a past mental
state; it could have happened to you right now, and you wouldn't know.
Thus, even if there is a real world, with real time and an arrow of
time, the subjective world is timeless.
Yet one subjective experiences duration and order.
I think you've misplaced the concrete.
Brent
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