Re: UDA query

2010-01-11 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2010/1/11 Brent Meeker > Stathis Papaioannou wrote: > >> 2010/1/11 Brent Meeker : >> >> >> >>> But aren't you assuming that consciousness is produced by the abstract >>> Platonic computation - rather than by the actual physical process (which >>> is >>> not the same) - in other words assuming the

Re: UDA query

2010-01-11 Thread Brent Meeker
Stathis Papaioannou wrote: 2010/1/11 Brent Meeker : No, I'm at this point assuming only that consciousness is produced by the physical process. We can assume for simplicity that the two machines M1 and M2 have similar architecture and similar operating systems. Once the program is loaded int

Re: UDA query

2010-01-11 Thread Brent Meeker
Quentin Anciaux wrote: 2010/1/11 Brent Meeker > Stathis Papaioannou wrote: 2010/1/11 Brent Meeker mailto:meeke...@dslextreme.com>>: But aren't you assuming that consciousness is produced by the abstract