Re: q*****

chris.watkins@iname.com
Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:44:16 -0500 (EST)

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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