Great summary, thanks for writing this up! A few questions / quibbles / clarifications:
System 1: The Eiffel tower itself. The Eiffel tower itself contains the information that 'The Eiffel Tower is in Paris' (the properties of the physical object is what determines the truth of the statement), but the Eiffel tower 'obviously' has no beliefs.
I’m not clear on exactly how this example is supposed to work. I think Miles was making the point that bare information is merely a measure of correlation, so even the states of simple physical objects can carry informat... (read more)
Great summary, thanks for writing this up! A few questions / quibbles / clarifications:
I’m not clear on exactly how this example is supposed to work. I think Miles was making the point that bare information is merely a measure of correlation, so even the states of simple physical objects can carry informat... (read more)