[ExI] Brains, Computers, AI and Uploading

Stathis Papaioannou stathisp at gmail.com
Sat Jan 23 23:36:39 UTC 2010


2010/1/24 Stefano Vaj <stefano.vaj at gmail.com>:
> I have just happened to stumble on a brief essay which seems to offer the
> ultimate philosophical "mise à point" on the debates having resurfaced on
> this list on the implementation of "intelligence", "consciousness" or
> specific individuals on platforms different from organic brains.
>
> There it is:
> http://www.fqxi.org/community/forum/topic/essay-download/596/__details/Wolfram_WhatIsUltimatelyPos_1.pdf

The essay is on computability of the universe. It doesn't directly
address the question of whether computability of brain processes
implies computability of consciousness, although from its tone it
seems that it does assume this.


-- 
Stathis Papaioannou



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