On Wed, Sep 06, 2006 at 12:25:10AM -0700, "Hal Finney" wrote: > I'd think that in the context of a multiverse, physical supervenience > would say that whether consciousness is instantiated would depend only > on physical conditions here, at this point in the multiverse, and would > not depend on conditions elsewhere. It would be a sort of "locality > condition" for the multiverse.
Why do you say this? Surely physical supervenience is simply supervenience on some physical object. Physical objects are spread across the multiverse, and are capable of reacting to all counterfactuals presented to it. Inside views are local - but the whole shebang must be spread across the Multiverse. Cheers -- *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 0425 253119 (mobile) Mathematics 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
