On 26 Aug 2012, at 20:56, meekerdb wrote:
On 8/26/2012 10:25 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote:
On 25 Aug 2012, at 12:35, Jason Resch wrote:
I agree different implementations of intelligence have different
capabilities and roles, but I think computers are general enough
to replicate any intelligence (so long as infinities or true
randomness are not required).
And now a subtle point. Perhaps.
The point is that computers are general enough to replicate
intelligence EVEN if infinities and true randomness are required
for it.
Imagine that our consciousness require some ORACLE. For example
under the form of a some non compressible sequence
11101000011101100011111101010110100001... (say)
Being incompressible, that sequence cannot be part of my brain at
my substitution level, because this would make it impossible for
the doctor to copy my brain into a finite string. So such sequence
operates "outside my brain", and if the doctor copy me at the right
comp level, he will reconstitute me with the right "interface" to
the oracle, so I will survive and stay conscious, despite my
consciousness depends on that oracle.
Will the UD, just alone, or in arithmetic, be able to copy me in
front of that oracle?
Yes, as the UD dovetails on all programs, but also on all inputs,
and in this case, he will generate me successively (with large
delays in between) in front of all finite approximation of the
oracle, and (key point), the first person indeterminacy will have
as domain, by definition of first person, all the UD computation
where my virtual brain use the relevant (for my consciousness) part
of the oracle.
A machine can only access to finite parts of an oracle, in course
of a computation requiring oracle, and so everything is fine.
That's how I imagine COMP instantiates the relation between the
physical world and consciousness; that the physical world acts like
the oracle and provides essential interactions with consciousness as
a computational process.
OK.
Of course that doesn't require that the physical world be an oracle
- it may be computable too.
It has to have the two aspects, and, a priori, the random oracles
rules, as they are vastly more numerous. That's the measure, or white
rabbit problem. Physics must be described by something linear at the
bottom and involving deep (in Bennett sense) observer, so as to
stabilize consciousness on long coherent histories.
That would makes us both relatively rare, and yet multiplied in a
continuum, if the "physical" computation manage well the dovetailing
on the oracles. The math confirms this, but a refutation of comp is
not yet completely excluded too.
Bruno
Brent
Of course, if we need the whole oracular sequence, in one step,
then comp would be just false, and the brain need an infinite
interface.
The UD dovetails really on all programs, with all possible input,
even infinite non computable one.
Bruno
http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/
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