RE: "Touching a Nerve: The Self as Brain" by philosopher Patricia Churchland
June 28, 2013 at 3:36 pm
(This post was last modified: June 28, 2013 at 3:40 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(June 25, 2013 at 11:43 pm)bennyboy Wrote: That's why you could transcode an mp3 to hologram, to memory chips, or to arranged black-and-white seashells on the beach if you wanted to, and that information would be the same.Not unless they all shared the same format, or were formatted. It can be -made to be the same-, would be a more accurate way to say this. Kind of the point of adopting any specific medium in the first place, from a standpoint of top down use. So that whatever information you wish to convey (be it the "meaningful experience" of casablanca -or- a series of slides-on-film of flesh eating bacteria) can be understood by more than one user. If I hand you a vhs cassette of casablanca..and you only have a dvd player...where did all that "meaningful experience" go?
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