On naturalism and consciousness

[Surgenator]

You didn't adress my complaint. I'm not stating that a mind cannot be on another medium. I'm stating that the medium creates the mind. As long as the required architecture and processes can exist on the medium in a stable form, a mind can be created on that medium.

You can also say that molecules "create" mind, since the brain supervenes on molecules, or that subatomic particles "create" atoms, or that the universe "creates" subatomic particles, or that ? creates the universe.

No you can't because that would be a fallacy of division. The collection of parts having a property doesn't mean the individual parts also have that property.

What you're saying is that celluloid film creates Casablanca, or that a CD creates an .mp3 song.

No, I'm saying Casablance was made by the actors, producers, etc... Their work was stored on celluloid film and a copy was made to a CD (or whatever other format you want to choose).

No, there is one assumption, and lots of bits of evidence supporting that assumption.

No, there are many assumptions. That you don't see this means that you are living inside them.

We seem to be at an impasse on this point.