wnoise comments on Getting Over Dust Theory - Less Wrong

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Comment author: wnoise 24 March 2010 05:49:56PM *  0 points [-]

To insist that these physical states in a computer intrinsically have one true computational interpretation is already highly dubious.

To say that a process occurring in a computer is intrinsically about something, you not only have to pick just one of those physical-to-computational mappings as the one true computational description, but you also have to pick one possible computational-to-semantic mapping as the one true interpretation.

Right. The usual dodge is that all possible computational interpretations are simultaneously happening.