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Dent · 08-20-2016, 05:39 PM

Adam Perrotta What is the difference between simulation of consciousness and actual consciousness?

David Pearce a deep question. My answer: you can't simulate first-person facts, or rather if you do, then appearance and reality are one-and-the-same. By contrast, you can simulate the economy or the weather or the financial markets (etc) with greater or lesser fidelity. This leads to another question. What makes any state of the world "about" another state? How, if at all, can semantic meaning be naturalised?

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#aboutness #intentionality

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intentionality

08-20-2016, 05:39 PM	#82 (permalink)
Dent Lost in Hilbert Spice Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Surrounded by knaves and fools Posts: 3,528 Internets: 183146	Adam Perrotta What is the difference between simulation of consciousness and actual consciousness? David Pearce a deep question. My answer: you can't simulate first-person facts, or rather if you do, then appearance and reality are one-and-the-same. By contrast, you can simulate the economy or the weather or the financial markets (etc) with greater or lesser fidelity. This leads to another question. What makes any state of the world "about" another state? How, if at all, can semantic meaning be naturalised? --------- #aboutness #intentionality https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intentionality