> > >> (JC) My consciousness (or degree of such) is a > complicated function > > >> of my evolutionary history, but the problem is so multifactorial it is > > >> inappropriate to use anthropic reasoning. > > > > > >Nonsense. You are either conscious, in which case you will observe > > >something, or you are not, which case you don't. This is a > simple two > > >state logic. > > > > That seems a remarkable assertion. As I grow from a fetus > to an adult, > > is there one particular interval of planck time where I go > from being > > an unconscious object to a conscious observer? > > It is unlikely to be resolvable to the planck scale, but I do > expect there to be a first observer moment (ie resolvable on > the millisecond scale). It may not be possible to pin down > exactly when this occurs with human beings, however, just as > it is extraordinarily difficult to draw a dividing line > between conscious animals and unconscious ones.
Likely because there *is* no dividing line. Why would you think that consciousness / observerness is a two state property? Jonathan Colvin
