Le 17-mars-06, à 20:27, Hal Finney a écrit :
> Here is where I may depart from Bruno, although I am not sure. I argue > that you can in fact set up a probability distribution over all of the > places in the UD where your mind exists, and it is based roughly on the > size of the part of the UD program that creates that information > pattern. > Recall that the UD in effect runs all programs at once. But some > programs > are shorter than others. I use the notion of algorithmic complexity > and the associated measure, which is called the Universal Distribution > (an unfortunate collision of the UD acronym). Basically this says that > the measure of the output of a given UD program of n bits is 1/2^n. What remains to be explained here is how you attach the first person indeterminacy, (which is relative to any member of the class of the third person describable states occuring anywhere in the universal deployment) and the measure coming from your Universal Distribution. Given that a first person cannot be aware of any delays of "reconstitution" of himself in the deployment, it seems to me you need to provide more motivation for your distribution (which is also based on comp). How to avoid the inescapable redundancy of states and histories generated by the UD, and the fact that the delay-invariance indeterminacy forces us to take into account all finite portion of the deployment. Bruno http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
