Russell, Out of curiosity, is that link density of ~62% derived from 1 - (e^-1) ?
The concept seems related, as it is also the proportion of hash values that can be reached by hashing all possible hash values (for a good hash function with a uniform distribution). Jason On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 4:17 PM, Russell Standish <[email protected]>wrote: > On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 05:01:50PM +0200, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > > > >Nevertheless, > > >you do think there must be some strong indicators why a continuous > > >(well at least local changes only) conscious path exists between all > > >conscious states. What is that? > > > > By what I called (with a wrong terming) agnosologic path: where each > > time you lost a mental feature, you lost also the mental reference > > to it, so you "don't see any difference". > > > > This involves amnesia, and I don't use that in UDA or AUDA. But I > > can also "think" and "discuss" like most participant in the list, on > > the larger domain than my thesis ! > > > > Ah - I probably missed what you were trying to say earlier. To follow > on from your "agnosologia", I would hesitate to guess that > consciousness somehow involves feedback loops. To make another > analogy, if I take a network, if sufficiently dense, it will have > cycles (loops), where if you follow the links from a given vertex, you > will end up back where you start from. > > If you start removing links, the number of cycles drops, until > eventually no cycles are left. That will most likely occur around the > percolation threshold of the network, which is about 62% link density > (62% of possible links are actually present) IIRC. > > ISTM one loses consciousness (loss of all feedback loops) well before > losing sufficient memories (the links) to be able to merge into another > person. This is essentially the reason fading qualia-style arguments > don't impress me. > > Of course this is not a proof. For that, I suspect we need a better > theory of consciousness. But I'm seeing your analogy, and raising one :). > > > -- > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) > Principal, High Performance Coders > Visiting Professor of Mathematics [email protected] > University of New South Wales http://www.hpcoders.com.au > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
