[ExI] digital simulations, descriptions and copies

[BillK]

On 1/20/10, Gordon Swobe  wrote:
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>  I contend that digital simulations of non-digital objects equal nothing
> more than *descriptions* of things and that we commit an egregious
> philosophical blunder when we conflate the digital descriptions of
> non-digital objects with the real objects they describe.
>
>  Some people seem to think that a digital simulation of an apple
> somehow equals a real apple; that supposing we find ways to create
> digital simulations of ourselves along with digital simulations of apples
> then those simulations of ourselves will actually eat and enjoy the taste
> of those scrumptious digitally-simulated delicious red apples.
>



Show me a 'real' consciousness!

I think it's just a simulation created by our brains, unless you can
give me one in a box with ribbon round it.


BillK