Re: on consciousness levels and ai

2010-01-22 Thread Bruno Marchal
Hi John, On 21 Jan 2010, at 22:19, John Mikes wrote: Dear Bruno, you took extra pain to describe (in your vocabulary) what I stand for (using MY vocabulary). - On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 2:17 PM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: John,

Re: on consciousness levels and ai

2010-01-22 Thread Brent Meeker
Bruno Marchal wrote: Hi John, On 21 Jan 2010, at 22:19, John Mikes wrote: Dear Bruno, you took extra pain to describe (in your vocabulary) what I stand for (using MY vocabulary). - On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 2:17 PM, Bruno Marchal

Re: R/ASSA query

2010-01-22 Thread Nick Prince
Hi Stahis You brought up the point of personal identity. When someone goes to sleep they lose consciousness (I am assuming so anyway - perhaps during deep sleep rather than REM). OK, so some people say that because they wake up again there is always a branch where they wake up. But suppose