On 20 Oct 2012, at 07:15, John Clark wrote:
On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 10:13 AM, Bruno Marchal <[email protected]>
wrote:
> Darwin does not need to be wrong. Consciousness role can be
deeper, in the "evolution/selection" of the laws of physics from the
coherent dreams (computations from the 1p view) in arithmetic.
I have no idea what that means, not a clue,
Probably for the same reason that you stop at step 3 in the UD Argument.
You assume a physical reality, and you assume that our consciousness
is some phenomenon related exclusively to some construct (brain,
bodies) in that physical reality.
But once you grasp the first person indeterminacy, and take into
account its many invariance features (they can't distinguish
immediately "real", "virtual", "arithmetical", they can't be aware of
the delays of reconstitution) you can see that comp make the existence
of a physical universe a from of vague "wishful thinking" kind of
thing, as your future, from your first person points of view will
depend on all the computations going through your actual current
relative state(s).
Comp generalized Everett (on QM) to arithmetic.
No doubt we share deep linear computations. Everett saves comp from
solipism. But QM has to be retrieved from number dreams statistics to
confirms this.
Advantage? The subtlety of arithmetical self-reference makes possible
to distinguish many sorts of points of view, and suggests explanation
for the difference between the qualia and the quanta.
but I do know that Evolution can't select for something it can't see,
OK.
and I do know that Evolution can see intelligence because it
produces behavior.
OK.
Evolution can't see consciousness directly any better than we can,
Plausible.
so if it produced it
No. With comp, consciousness was there before. It just get lost on
relatively coherent sheafs of computational histories.
We share dreams. (a dream is a computation to which a first person
is attributable)
(and it did unless Darwin was dead wrong)
Darwin explains the evolution of species, in an Aristotelian framework.
Comp refutes the Aristotelian framework, and saves the main part of
Darwin, indeed, it generalizes it on a realm where the laws of physics
themselves arises by a process of arithmetical self-selection.
then consciousness MUST be a byproduct of something that it can see.
The contrary, if you say "yes" to the doctor by betting on comp,
"consciously".
I think anybody can see that once he/she/it takes comp seriously and
stay cold rationalist on the subject.
I don't think it is so much more alluring than Everett QM.
Bruno
John K Clark
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