On 17 January 2014 01:17, Jason Resch <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Jan 16, 2014, at 2:11 AM, Stathis Papaioannou <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 16 January 2014 16:26, Jason Resch <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> The computational metaphor in the sense of the brain works like the Intel >>> CPU inside the box on your desk is clearly misleading, but the sense that >>> a >>> computer can in theory do everything your brain can do is almost >>> certainly >>> correct. It is not that the brain is like a computer, but rather, that a >>> computer can be like almost anything, including your brain or body, or >>> entire planet and all the people on it. >>> >>> Jason >> >> >> I think neuroscientists have, over decades, used the computational >> metaphor in too literal a way. It is obviously not true that the brain >> is a digital computer, just as it is not true that the weather is a >> digital computer. But a digital computer can simulate the behaviour of >> any physical process in the universe (if physics is computable), >> including the behaviour of weather or the human brain. That means >> that, at least, it would be possible to make a philosophical zombie >> using a computer. > > > How does this follow? Personally I don't find the notion that philosophical > zombies make logical sense at all.
I meant that if the physics of the brain is computable it follows as a straighforward deduction that it would *at least* be possible to make a philosophical zombie. It is then a further argument to show that it would not be a zombie but a conscious being. -- Stathis Papaioannou -- 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 [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
