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Rice's theorem also applies to the human/brain. Take whatever specification you want of the human, at the cell level, at the subatomic level, and (an equivalent
by dist-epoch 11mo ago
Rice's theorem also applies to the human/brain. Take whatever specification you want of the human, at the cell level, at the subatomic level, and (an equivalent) of Rice's theorem applies.
So how is that relevant then? Are you saying you are not conscious because you can't create a decidable test for proving you are conscious?
- measurablefunc 11mo agoRice's theorem only applies in formal contexts so whoever thinks they can reduce conscious phenomenology into a formal context will face the problems of incompleteness & undecidability. That is why I said it is fundamentally irreducible & can not be explained in terms of extensional & reductive constructions like boolean arithmetic. In other words, if you think the mind is simply computation then there is no way you can look at some code that purports to be the specification of a mind & determine whether it is going to instantiate conscious experience from its static/syntactic description.