On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 12:10:33PM -0700, "Hal Finney" wrote: > The lifetime formulation also captures the intuition many people have > that consciousness should not "jump around" as observer moments are > created in the various simulations and scenarios we imagine in our > thought experiments. That was the conclusion I reached in the posting > referenced above, that teleportation might in some sense "not work" > even though someone walks out of the machine thousands of miles away > who remembers walking into it. The measure of such a lifetime would be > substantially less than that of a similar person who never teleports. > > Hal Finney
I note that you have identified yourself with the the ASSA camp in the past (at least I say so in my book, so it must be true, right! :). What you are proposing above is an anti-functionalist position. The question is does functionalism necessarily imply RSSA, and antifunctionalism imply the ASSA? ie, does this whole RSSA/ASSA debate turn on the question of functionalism? I wonder where this leaves Mallah, who admits to computationalism, yet is died-in-the-wool ASSA? Cheers -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- A/Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Mathematics UNSW SYDNEY 2052 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Australia http://www.hpcoders.com.au ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
