On 12/12/2013 1:36 AM, LizR wrote:
On 12 December 2013 17:00, Richard Ruquist <yann...@gmail.com
<mailto:yann...@gmail.com>> wrote:
Liz,
In forking MWI worlds, your ID is constantly changing as it depends on
various
quantum states.
Your detailed nature is never duplicated. Every fork is a change from your
previous
state.
If comp supports MWI, why should your ID ever stay the same
since you are constantly forking with or without the doctor.
Rich
Yes, I wondered about that. However you look at it, digital consciousness involves
constant state changes, at the substitution level and below. You end up with something
like David Deutsch's snapshots or Fred Hoyle's pigeon holes, or someone, not sure who's
"capsule" model of identity. It's all very Heraclitean!
Of course in a (gasp!) materialist model, there are no "snapshots". The computations that
produce consciousness are distributed in space and time and one "thought" overlaps another.
Brent
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