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Article 6009 of comp.ai.philosophy:
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>From: rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy
Subject: Re: Hypothesis: I am a Transducer (Formerly "Virtual Grounding")
Message-ID: <1992Jun1.161622.23110@mp.cs.niu.edu>
Date: 1 Jun 92 16:16:22 GMT
References: <1992May31.145204.16357@Princeton.EDU> <1992Jun1.142749.8520@cs.ucf.edu>
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In article <1992Jun1.142749.8520@cs.ucf.edu> clarke@acme.ucf.edu (Thomas Clarke) writes:

>SH (and others) argue plausibly that computation alone cannot give 
>consiousness.  If physicality is not abandoned, then either the C-T
>thesis is false or Laplace's view is wrong.  C-T is only a hypothesis,

  What has C-T to do with anything.  C-T is neither true nor false.  It
is not the type of thing that can ever be true or false.  It is merely
a cultural belief withi mathematics.  People can stop believing it
if they like.  But you can't talk about it being false.

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  Neil W. Rickert, Computer Science               <rickert@cs.niu.edu>
  Northern Illinois Univ.
  DeKalb, IL 60115                                   +1-815-753-6940


