2009/2/11 Quentin Anciaux <[email protected]> > > > 2009/2/11 Jesse Mazer <[email protected]> > >> >> >> Brent Meeker wrote: >> > >> > Indeed there seems to be a conflict between MWI of QM and the feeling of >> > consciousness. QM evolves unitarily to preserve total probability, which >> > implies that the splitting into different quasi-classical subspaces >> reduces the >> > measure of each subspace. But there's no perceptible diminishment of >> > consciousness. I think this is consistent with the idea that >> consciousness is a >> > computation, since in that case the computation either exists or it >> doesn't. >> > Two copies don't increase the measure of a computation and reducing it's >> vector >> > in Hilbert space doesn't diminish it. >> >> But why should less measure imply a "diminishment of consciousness"? >> Measure is not intended to have anything to do with how a given observer or >> observer-moment feels subjectively at a given instant, just how *likely* >> that experience is. If I win the lottery I don't feel my consciousness >> diminish, for example. >> Jesse > > > Hence measure cannot be an argument againt QI... >
Because the point is to know from a 1st person perspective that it exists a "next subjective moment"... if there is, QI holds. Even if in the majority of "universes" I'm dead... from 1st perspective I cannot "be dead" hence the only moments that count is where I exists however small the measure of that moment is... and if at any momemts there exists a successor where I exists then QI holds. Regards, Quentin > > > >> >> >> >> > > > -- > All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. > -- All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
