From: Damien Broderick (d.broderick@english.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Wed Jul 25 2001 - 03:06:51 MDT
At 12:54 AM 7/25/01 -0700, samantha wrote:
>are we sure that "immaterial" means something
>other-worldly?
That's what it meant in my commentary on Chalmers.
>Is the information qua information
>not immaterial relative to the signal carrying that
>information?
No. Information is the modulation of a material substrate (even if
`material' means something in terms of quantum states that's not
immediately intuitive at the mesoscale).
>If it turns out the "myself program" can be easily
>tranferred or stored and replayed or replicated in many
>bodies/forms then I am not sure what mileage some thought to get
>from the "immaterial soul" would remain missing.
Indeed.
Damien Broderick
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