On Sunday, November 4, 2018 at 7:54:19 AM UTC-6, John Clark wrote: > > On Sun, Nov 4, 2018 at 6:23 AM Philip Thrift <cloud...@gmail.com > <javascript:>> wrote: > > *> If experience (Galen Strawson, The Subject of Experience) is the result >> of information (only) processing, * >> > > If? If information is not the thing that needs processing to produce > intelligence then what is? > > > then the argument for arithmetical (Platonic) reality holds. >> > > Only if somebody can show how information, or anything else, can be > processed without using matter that obeys the laws of physics. And, despite > the existence of books made of dead trees with black squiggles made of ink > with a high Carbon content pressed onto them, nobody has even come close to > doing that. > > John K Clark >
It's that experience (not just information) that needs processing to produc*e consciousness*. That's the assertion. It one says intelligence == consciousness (the two are interchangeable), then that's a matter of definition. But I say there can be unconscious (pseudo-)intelligent robots made. - pt -- 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.
