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>From: santas@inf.ethz.ch (Philip Santas)
Subject: Re: Strong AI and panpsychism
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In article <1992Feb12.150503.23822@oracorp.com> daryl@oracorp.com writes:
>David Chalmers writes:
>
>>>Being "highly gerrymandered" seems to me to be a matter of the
>>>difficulty of interpreting a rock as conscious, but it doesn't seem to
>>>be relevant to the question of whether it can be so interpreted. Why
>>>should a convoluted, complex definition of the mental states count any
>>>less than a straight-forward one?
>
>>You must have misunderstood something: it's Putnam's physical "states"
>>that are gerrymandered.  The notion of gerrymandered mental states
>>doesn't come into the picture.
>
>What I thought you were saying was that in Putnam's argument that any
>physical object implements any functional system, the correspondence
>between physical states and mental states was very unnatural and ad
>hoc. My question was why does it matter; if there exists *any* mapping
>(however strange) between physical states and mental states, then why
>can't the physical object be said to *possess* those mental states?


There is a mapping between the set of even integers and the set of integers.
But the former set does not possess the odd numbers and many of their attributes.

>
>Daryl McCullough

Philip Santas

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