On Fri, Sep 22, 2006 at 12:18:37PM +0200, Bruno Marchal wrote: ...
> > It is really the key to understand that if my 3-person I is a machine, > then the I, (the 1-person I) is not! This can be used to explain why > the 1-person is solipsist, although the 1-person does not need to be > doctrinaire about that (fortunately enough). > > > Bruno > > http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/ > I think this comment is most interesting, and perhaps you are finally laying to rest my confusion. By 3-person, we really mean my extended brain, which is quantum mechanically dstributed across the Multiverse (see previous comments to Stathis et al.) By 1-person, we mean the projection of ourselves that we are (self-) aware of. This includes that lump of grey porridge we call a brain. The 3 person could be something relatively complex like a computer, but it could just as easily be Stathis's rock actually. What matters is the 1-person, which is inherently non-computable. If I can just see why the anthropic principle follows in an obvious way from this, I'll be even happier! 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 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
