On 11 Dec 2013, at 21:10, meekerdb wrote:
On 12/11/2013 12:55 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote:
On 10 Dec 2013, at 20:20, George wrote:
Hi List
I haven't contributed to this list for a while but I thought you
might be interested in this article from the Science Daily on line
magazine
Neural Prosthesis Restores Behavior After Brain Injury
Yes, things progress. Nice to hear of you George, best,
Of course, we cannot test the first person experience of the rat.
Even if the rat can talk, that would prove almost nothing, but the
human will say "yes" to the doctor anyway, and without thinking to
much on the theoretical consequences of the possible survival.
But this brings up a difficulty I see in "comp". We know that if
the level of substitution is quantal, then we can't clone the state
of the part being replaced (and in the UD model this corresponds to
not knowing all the threads of computation through the state).
If comp is true, we have to derive the quantal from that
indeterminacy. In all case, we never know which computations are
running us. If the brain is a quantum computer, physics should not be
exactly quantum physics, as I said to richard today.
This wouldn't deter people from saying "yes" to the doctor.
If the doctor gives a quantum brain, in that case.
But it implies that there will the a qualitative difference in
consciousness, a "jump", perhaps like a memory gap and temporary
disorientation due to concussion or drugs.
yes, or worse. If my level is below the quantum level, I might just
die if I am substituted above that level. May be it will look like I
have surivived, but the doppelganger might, in this case, be really an
usurper.
But then why doesn't some improbable quantum fluctuation prevent the
part replacement and provide a more continuous path of
consciousness, in analogy to quantum immortality?
It will. I will survive anyway, but perhaps not in the doppelganger
actually done, but in some other part of the UD*.
Bruno
Brent
To stop comp to be *applied*, we should have made glasses illegal
long ago ... Then we can argue that molecular biology confirms the
use of comp by biological system all the time.
Bruno
George Levy
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