>>> Not to wish to pre-empt Bruno's reply, but I think you're mixing up 1- >>> >>> p and 3-p. From 3-p, all branches are conscious, but I only experience >>> >>> myself on one branch at a time, probabilistically according to the >>> >>> measure of computations. There's no individual soul, just in one sense >>> >>> a single consciousness that experiences every possible state. > That seems >>> incoherent to me. How is it different from there are many > experiences? >>> "I" is just a construct from a subset of experiences and there > can be >>> many different subsets from which many different "I"s can be > constructed. >>> But I don't know what it would mean to say there is just > one "I" or >>> to say that "I" can jump from one thread of experience to > another. That >>> would presuppose that consciousness, the "I", is something > apart from the >>> experiences it jumps to.
David says it better than I could have, but just to add that when I say "I" that is just a sort of short-hand for the 1-p perspective. There is no separate experiencer. In UDA, it's simply the notes in a 'diary', some verifiable record of that branch of the computational histories. There isn't really a 'jumping' of anything, there are just these different computational branches. And in saying there's one consciousness that experiences every possible state, that doesn't imply experiencing them simultaneously. That theoretical objective vantage point, seeing all histories, is the privilege of God perhaps, or no-one. (Don't jump on me about the God bit, there's obviously no God in an arithmetical ontology). Also, just to note that this is no more incoherent than Everett. Many Worlds implies the same view of the subject. -- 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 everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en.
