On 02 Nov 2012, at 22:02, John Clark wrote:
On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 Bruno Marchal <[email protected]> wrote:
> He believes he still exist, because he believes, or assumed, comp.
People believe they exist and in real life they don't have or need a
reason for doing so. And I no longer know what "comp" means.
Comp means that we can survive with a digital brain. Nothing else. but
it implies that Plato is correct and Aristotle is incorrect for the
global conception of reality.
> Comp is that we can survive with a digital machine replacing the
brain.
I have no difficulty with that, but now you tell me that it means a
great many other things too,
Yes. It has concequences which contradict many point of Aristotle
metaphysics.
things that are clearly untrue; like consciousness was there before
Evolution produced brains or "the owner [of a brain] itself must
attach his consciousness to all states existing in arithmetic".
Let us go step by step.
> you are stuck in step 3
And I will remain stuck there until you fix the blunders you made in
step 3;
Your "blunder" has been debunked by many people. Then you have
oscillate between contradictory statements. You are only confusing 1-
views with 3-views. Sometimes between 3-views on 1-views and the 1-
views on 1-views.
You are the one pretending being able to predict what happens after
pushing the button, but you have always given a list of what can
happen, which is not a prediction.
after that perhaps the additional steps that were built on that
fatally flawed foundation would be worth reading.
You did not show a flow, just a confusion between 1p and 3p.
> the guy in W and the guy in M are both the guy in H
Yes.
> by definition of comp.
I don't know what that is.
See above.
> This is enough to get the 1_indeterminacy.
You don't know what your environment will be, what's new and
mysterious about that?
OK. Good. So you accept it. Please go to step 4 now, and tell me if
you agree. We have all the time to see where the reasoning will
eventually lead us.
I have no duplicating machine but I still don't know if my
environment will include rain tomorrow, but I can't find anything of
philosophical interest in that fact .
This is not the same form of indeterminacy. The impossibility of
predicting the weather is due to the deterministic chaos. This is not
used in the first person indeterminacy.
> And the guy in Helsinki, if he can reason like any Löbian machine,
Like your other invention "comp" I don't know what a "Löbian
machine" is.
A universal machine capable of proving all sentence with the shape p -
> Bew('p'), with p being an arithmetical sentence with shape ExP(x),
and P decidable. Exemple: prover theorem for PA, ZF, etc.
>>>> What is the probability the Washington man will write in his
diary he sees Washington? 100%.
>>> The question was asked to the Helsinki man.
>> But you said the Helsinki man was destroyed, if so then he's got
a rather severe case of writers block and is writing very little in
his diary.
> The body of the guy in Helsinki is destroyed, but by comp, we have
already accept that the guy itself survives.
So when you say "The question was asked to the Helsinki man" you are
asking a question to a man who's body has been destroyed.
No, the question is asked before he pushes on the read/cut button.
Yes the Helsinki man is also the Washington man so you could say
there is a 100% chance the Helsinki man will write in his diary "I
see Washington".
No. the question is *about* a future 1-view. The guy knows that he
might very well be the guy in Moscow, so he cannot assert that he will
*feel* with 100% chance to be the one in Washington. Again you confuse
the 3-view and the 1-view.
Of course the Helsinki man is also the Moscow man so there is a 100%
chance the Helsinki man will write in his diary "I DO NOT see
Washington". There is no contradiction because you have been
duplicated.
Of course there is no contradiction. But the Helsinki man would find
to be contradict if he said I will find myself in W and I will find
myself in Washington, from the first person view, as he knows that
after pushing the button he will find himself being in only one city,
not in two cities simultaneously.
>> If Bruno Marchal's body is duplicated and sent to Washington and
Moscow but inside identical boxes then Bruno Marchal's
consciousness has not been duplicated and will not be until the
boxes are opened and different things are observed by the Brunos,
at that point they will no longer be each other but both will still
be Bruno Marchal
> Exactly. This contradict what you say above though.
I said a great deal above but I'll be damned if I see any
contradiction .
You did it again. You pretend that there is 100% chance that he will
feel to see Washington, and 100% chance he will feel to see Moscow,
and yet you agree that there is 100% chance he will see only one city
(and you forget that the question is which one, with what chance).
> It doesn't matter if Boltzman brains exist or not.
> Of course it does matter. That the point of step 4, 5, 6, 7.
Which are useless because they were built on top of a step that does
not work.
... for someone unable to understand that the question is about the
future first person point of view, as seen by the future first person
point of view, and not about the 3-view on all future first person
points of view, as you keep giving.
Reading step 4 should help you to eventually grasp this key nuance.
Bruno
http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/
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