On 11 Feb 2009, at 18:30, Saibal Mitra wrote:
> > Welcome back Jack Mallah! > > I have a different argument against QTI. > > I had a nice dream last night, but unfortunately it suddenly ended. > Now, this is empirical evidence against QTI because, according to the > QTI, the life expectancy of the version of me simulated in that dream > should have been be infinite. The notion of "ending" makes sense only relatively to something "ending latter or not ending". With most definition of first person (including both UDA and AUDA definitions) "first person ending" just makes no sense. Topologically, life is an open set. Bruno http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---

