On 6/24/2019 3:12 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote:
That every "universal machine/number" has "the same physics" would be
consistent with materialism:
Yes. But materialism is not consistent with the stronger assumption of
Mechanism. The strong AI thesis is consistent with Materialism,
although not quite plausible. But weak materialism is inconsistent
with the indexical part of Digital mechanism: the idea that “I”
survive the digital transplantation.
But your argument for that inconsistency assumes a neat boundary between
"I" and the environment, which I think is false.
Brent
In that case I am “in arithmetic”, and physics has to be the sum on
all relative computations.
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