I think if you stack all possible recordings together in the way you suggest, connected in such as way as to be indistinguishable from a computation occuring with all its counterfactuals in the Multiverse, then what you have is a computation.
Cheers On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 02:55:18PM +1000, Stathis Papaioannou wrote: > > Russell Standish writes: > > > In the Multiverse, there is a huge difference between a recording and > > the actual computation. Only in one single universe (or history) of > > the ensemble do the two coincide. > > > > The "recording is a computation" issue is only a problem for single > > universe theory IMHO. > > Do you mean that the recording is static while the computation branches > out in the MV? Couldn't we also say that all possible related recordings > exist > somewhere in the multiverse, giving just as broad a variety of putative > computations as the conventional computer? In any case, even if the > recording is confined to a single universe while the computation roams all > over the ensemble, does that necessarily say anything about whether the > recording can be conscious? > > Stathis Papaioannou > _________________________________________________________________ > Be one of the first to try Windows Live Mail. > http://ideas.live.com/programpage.aspx?versionId=5d21c51a-b161-4314-9b0e-4911fb2b2e6d > -- *PS: A number of people ask me about the attachment to my email, which is of type "application/pgp-signature". Don't worry, it is not a virus. It is an electronic signature, that may be used to verify this email came from me if you have PGP or GPG installed. Otherwise, you may safely ignore this attachment. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- A/Prof Russell Standish Phone 8308 3119 (mobile) Mathematics 0425 253119 (") UNSW SYDNEY 2052 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Australia http://parallel.hpc.unsw.edu.au/rks International prefix +612, Interstate prefix 02 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
