> On 25 Apr 2019, at 18:44, 'Cosmin Visan' via Everything List > <everything-list@googlegroups.com> wrote: > > What does "I survive a functional digital substitution at that level." mean ?
The same as surviving with an artificial heart. But here it is an artficial brain, which copy the brain at the right level. For example if you believe that your “brain” is the entire physical observable universe, at the resolution of string theory, with 10^(10^100) decimals, it means that you would feel no difference with an artificial or virtual rendering of your brain when it is replaced by a machine doing that simulation, of your brain, at that minute level. Mechanism its just the thesis that we are machine, and a machine is mainly something which can be fixed, in principle. You might read my papers, where I explain with more details. I will say more in some possible answer to John Clark, soon enough. You should appreciate, because the universal machine already agree with some of your main conclusion, but then mechanism explains also consciousness and experience, without assuming them. Bruno > > On Thursday, 25 April 2019 18:13:58 UTC+3, Bruno Marchal wrote: > >> On 23 Apr 2019, at 20:06, 'Cosmin Visan' via Everything List >> <everyth...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>> wrote: >> >> So what does "computer science" has to do with consciousness ? It seems to >> me that you just make a random connection. > > I assume the indexical digital mechanist hypothesis, which assume that there > exists a level of description of myself such that I survive a functional > digital substitution at that level. > > > -- > 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 > <mailto:everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com>. > To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com > <mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com>. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list > <https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout > <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>. -- 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.
