I find it extremely difficult to imagine even if maximizing engineering capabilities to the limits of physics and even bending the laws of physics where we would get anything but an imperfect copy or a reflection. If the mind is a self-organizing system that sustains and compensates for small errors in the transfer physics it's still a "lagging" copy. A perfect reflection instantly diverges once it's uncoupled. But - you are instantly diverging each time quanta. Your consciousness is tightly coupled to the mind's electrochemistry... one time quanta ago you were a copy. Your future is copies of you now. Are they you? Perhaps we are not who we think we are and copies are sort of multi-bifurcations of ourselves across time into space projections...
We don't know yet if consciousness can be copied, it may be unique. Anyway, I hadn't really thought about uploading much but your paper is really interesting from the algorithmic information theory perspective thanks for posting it. Uploads, being imperfect reflections or not have huge AGI potential especially if going through mods. John From: Gabriel Leuenberger via AGI [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2014 12:41 PM To: AGI Subject: RE: [agi] [offtopic] The GOERTZEL's latest publication. > On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 8:17 PM, Piaget Modeler via AGI <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > But I would submit that copy of you is not you. A clone of you is not you, it is a clone. > > It doesn't have the same identity. Neither does a program that simulates your mind. > > (In my humble opinion, of course.) In the end questions on personal identity are going to be answered by algorithmic probability not by opinions. You can see how in section 3.4 of this draft paper: http://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1404/1404.1718.pdf I applied it to an old teleportation thought experiment. Off course it can also be applied to mind uploading. Cheers, Gabriel Leuenberger AGI | <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now> Archives <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/248029-82d9122f> | <https://www.listbox.com/member/?&;> Modify Your Subscription <http://www.listbox.com> ------------------------------------------- AGI Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/21088071-f452e424 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21088071&id_secret=21088071-58d57657 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
