On Mon, Jun 05, 2017 at 12:48:51PM -0700, Brent Meeker wrote: > Here Scott Aaronson addresses the "pretty-hard problem of consciousness" > > http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=1951 > > His idea of "participation in the Arrow of Time" is a narrower and > more technical version of my idea that consciousness only exists in > the context of an environment in which it can both perceive and act.
I would say that my "PROJECTION postulate" is a more specific version of this, particularly in light of my observation that in the Multiverse, all irreversible processes are Darwinian evolutionary processes, with selection given by this PROJECTION postulate. I even give a mechanism for how this might occur, in the form of applied chaos theory as outline on page 105/6 of my book. I know Scott wouldn't go as far as me. For me, all such irreversible processes are related to conscious entities in some way. Whilst agreeing that Geiger counters are unlikely to be conscious, I would say that the output of Geiger counter is not actually discrete until observed by a conscious experimenter. But then Scott is also a lapsed MWIist, so that could be the source of our disagreement :). -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Senior Research Fellow hpco...@hpcoders.com.au Economics, Kingston University http://www.hpcoders.com.au ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
