(January 7, 2016 at 3:56 pm)ChadWooters Wrote:(January 7, 2016 at 3:34 pm)ApeNotKillApe Wrote: The "program" needs a piece of machinery to receive and interpret the digital information, does it not?
IMHO functionalist proposals cannot be considered truly physical theories of consciousness. When mental properties are assumed to be realizable on multiple platforms, then they must be ontologically distinct from the matter on which they supervene.
And by what authority do you make your ontological claims about this ontological distinction?
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