TheOtherDave comments on Eight questions for computationalists - Less Wrong Discussion
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Oh, all right. I'm bored and suggestible.
1 - Both potentially meaningful
2 - That's a question about the meanings of words. I don't object to those constraints on the meanings of those words, though I don't feel strongly about them.
3 - If "qualia" is meaningful (see 1), then no.
4 - N/A
5 - Ugh. "Any required degree" is damningly vague. Labeling confidence levels as follows:
...I'd say C1 > C2 > C3 > 99%, though C2 would require also implementing the computer in neurons in a cloned body.
5a - Depends on the required level of accuracy: ~0% for a stone statue, for example. For any of the above examples, I'd expect it to do so as much as the original does.
5b - Not in the sense you mean.
6 - I am not sure that question makes sense. If it does, accurate priors are beyond me. For lack of anything better, I go with a universal prior of 50%.
7 - Mostly that's a question about definitions... if it doesn't explain consciousness, is it really a Theory of Everything? But given what I think you mean by ToE: 99+%.
8 - Question about definitions. I'm willing to constrain my definition of "real" that way, for the sake of discussion.
9 - I have no idea and am not convinced the questions make sense, x4.
10 - x5.
11 - Not entirely, though it is a regular student at a nonsensei-run dojo.