On 27 Oct 2012, at 21:35, meekerdb wrote:
On 10/27/2012 7:56 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote:
On 26 Oct 2012, at 21:30, meekerdb wrote:
On 10/26/2012 6:57 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote:
Oh yes, I remember that you did agree once with the 323
principle, but I forget what is your problem with the movie-
graph/step-8, then. If you find the time, I am please if you
can elaborate. I think Russell too is not yet entirely convinced.
What bothers me about it is that counterfactuals are virtually
infinite. So to make the argument go through I think it
implicitly requires a whole 'world';
Not really, as here, you can use Maudlin who showed that the
conuterfactuals does not require physical activity. In MGA, if
you give a role to the conuterfactual, you violate the 323
principle, so that you attribute a functional role in a
particular computation to object having no physical activity for
the actual computation.
But I'm not sure about the 323 principle in a QM world.
Even QM worlds, with QM observers, even having Q brains, are
emulated in the UD, or in arithmetic. If the 323 principles does
not hold for them, it might mean that QM is the winning
computation, but then you have to explain this from arithmetic.
Or you are meaning that you need a *primary* QM world and brain?
In that case, my consciousness would not be invariant when the Q
brain is entirely simulated by a classical machine, and comp is
made false.
The latter. But why the restriction to "my consciousness"? Only a
small fraction of thought is conscious.
Consciousness is what will select the arithmetical or computer-science-
theoretical branches in the arithmetical reality. It is not a fraction
of thought which is conscious, it is a person, supported by infinities
of "unconscious" computations.
If you opt for the latter, you can't accept a digital brain, not even
a quantum one, per computatio. You negate comp, by putting something
magical, needed for your consciousness, in the quantum material reality.
In that non comp reality you are back with all questions unsolved:
where does that QM reality comes from, how do you singularize actual
conscious experiences in it, etc.
Bruno
Brent
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