From: chris.watkins@iname.com
Date: Mon Dec 13 1999 - 11:44:16 MST
Damien Broderick wrote:
>
> But this is just the auto-deconstruction of the very concept `zombie' that
> undoes the whole thought experiment. As people have noted for years, it's
> like proposing a universe exactly like ours where molecules bash against
> each other but there is no `heat'.
>
> Damien Broderick (AND IT FUCKING WELL DOES MATTER WHAT MY NAME IS)
>
Hi,
I'm convinced that heat is logically supervenient upon molecular motion. On the other hand I'm far from convinced that consciousness is logically supervenient upon physics, so that a world identical to ours in all other respects but lacking in qualia seems entirely plausible. The only way out of the zombie trap I can see is that both physics and consciousness are implied by information.
Chris Watkins.
chris.watkins@iname.com
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