On 1/16/2013 7:15 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote:
On 15 Jan 2013, at 23:18, meekerdb wrote:
On 1/15/2013 8:21 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote:
On 15 Jan 2013, at 07:54, meekerdb wrote, to Jason:
Consider the quantum suicide experiment, or the Shrodinger's cat experiment from the
perspective of the cat. From the first-person perspective consciousness cannot end,
regardless of how low the third-person probability may be.
But that's just a semantic trick. The first-person perspective consciousness can
still be finite. Just because "the end" isn't part of the experience, it doesn't
follow that the sequence of experiences continues indefinitely. I've had my
consciousness interrupted. There was no mathematical/logical necessity that it resume.
Of course. But if you assume either QM, or comp, there are.
Comp maybe. QM doesn't require that consciousness continue.
?
What would it mean to observe anything if consciousness does not continue
(locally)?
An "observation" in QM is just instantiating the value of a projection operator in a
quasi-classical form. There is nothing prevent others people and instruments from
observing things after I cease to.
Brent
You lost me here,
Bruno
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