[ExI] Do digital computers feel was Re: Is the wave function real?

[John Clark]

On Thu, Dec 15, 2016 at 12:59 PM, William Flynn Wallace <foozler83 at gmail.com
> wrote:

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>> in fact I have no proof that you or anybody else have any subjective
>> experiences at all.  john
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> It may be that your standards of proof are in question,
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​No my standards of proof are fine.​ I said I have no proof and I do not,
but belief proof and truth are three different things.



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> You seem to be able to believe that only you, out of over 7 billion
> people, can be conscious, think, feel, and so on.
>

​No, I do not believe for ​one second that I am the only conscious being in
the universe, and I don't think anyone this side of a looney bin believes
in solipsism either, except perhaps for some philosophy professors, and
even then only when they're lecturing in a classroom.  I and every sane
person must accept as a axiom of existence that when something behaves as
if they are conscious then they are. I must accept that because I could not
function if I did not.  That's why I firmly believe (but can not prove)
that my fellow human beings are conscious when they are taking a Calculus
exam but are not conscious when they are asleep or under anesthesia or
dead.  That is also why I believe (but can not prove) that rocks are not
conscious; they just don't behave as if they are.


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> I would have to ask you:  *what proof do you have that you are this
> unique?*
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​The same amount of proof that I am not this unique, zilch.


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> How likely is this?
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​42.​


​John K Clark​
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