On Dec 12, 2013, at 11:00 AM, meekerdb <[email protected]> wrote:
On 12/12/2013 1:36 AM, LizR wrote:
On 12 December 2013 17:00, Richard Ruquist <[email protected]> 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.
That isn't obvious to me. Are you saying the brain manufactures 10^43
thoughts per second? Would we know if the brain only made ~30
thoughts per second?
Jason
Brent
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