From: Matt Gingell (mjg223@is7.nyu.edu)
Date: Mon Dec 20 1999 - 11:37:50 MST
Supposing for an instant that we live in a deterministic universe,
what's the difference between the 'real world' and a stack of paper
with some rules and initial conditions? The information content is the
same - why should it matter whether we're described implicitly or
explicitly? If time is a construct of the mind, and 'now' is a
perceptual artifact, what's the difference between a thought and a long
list of brain-states? Would you expect a static list to have subjective
experience if it enumerated the intermediate states of the right
computation, or does it have to be embedded it some special kind of
substrate?
-matt
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