On 11 Jan 2014, at 13:54, Terren Suydam wrote:
Hi Bruno,
The WM experiment is easy to grasp. For me the difficulty lies, as
Liz guessed, with the infinity of possibilities. For continuation Cn
does p(n) stabilize as the number of computations approaches infinity?
If not, comp is false.
Are there an infinity of possible continuations?
Yes.
Are they enumerable?
No, they are not. The infinite computation with some dovetailing on
the real numbers or infinite sequences have to win on all finite or
denumerable histories. But some possible chunk of them might play some
role.
I mean there is a way of using intuition here but infinities have a
way of making intuition obsolete.
Yes, but since Cantor we do have tools, and some can work in the
theoretical computer science context. If the intuition is shown to
lead to an impossibility, this will show a problem with comp, not with
the math derived from it (normally, if there are no flaw in the math
translation, based on the classical theory of knowledge).
Bruno
Terren
On Jan 11, 2014 3:28 AM, "Bruno Marchal" <marc...@ulb.ac.be> wrote:
On 11 Jan 2014, at 02:34, Terren Suydam wrote:
Yeah, if there's one thing about the UDA that seems like magic to
me, that's it - how an infinity of emulations "condense" into a
single conscious experience.
I would be please to understand the problem. If you are OK with step
3, you know that the "condensation" is given by the probability
measure on all computations going through your local current state,
by the FPI.
Your consciousness condenses into "here and now" for the same
measure the guy in Washington feel to be in only once city after the
WM-duplication.
I am not sure to really see what you don't see.
QM suggests a measure exists, but with comp, if the measure exists,
we must derived it from arithmetic. If we can show that such a
measure does not exist, then we know that comp is false.
Bruno
Terren
On Jan 10, 2014 8:04 PM, "Stephen Paul King" <stephe...@provensecure.com
> wrote:
Dear Terren,
Yes, it is about the continuations and measures thereof. I am not
having much luck discovering how the measures are defined.
On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 8:02 PM, Terren Suydam <terren.suy...@gmail.com
> wrote:
Not sure I see the relevance, except to corroborate the idea
(notwithstanding Bruno's comments) that mine and Glak's worlds
would be separated as a result of the measure of stable
continuations of those worlds... or were you making a different
point?
Terren
On Jan 10, 2014 5:13 PM, "meekerdb" <meeke...@verizon.net> wrote:
On 1/10/2014 8:57 AM, Terren Suydam wrote:
It seems that the UDA implies that physics is uniquely determined
- but only for a particular point of view. So I, Terren,
experience one and only one physics, because my consciousness is
the selection criteria among the infinity of computations going
through my state. But what about Glak, a being in an alternative
physics? Glak's consciousness selects a unique/invariant physics
for Glak, but that emergent physical universe Glak experiences is
characterized by laws that are different from what I experience.
But then if you ask, "Why do not I, Terren, become Glak and vice-
versa?" you see that the answer must be that it would be an
improbable continuation of my brain states to suddenly instantiate
a different physics and experience being Glak. This is like the
"white rabbit problem", except in the form of why don't I turn into
a white rabbit, that Bruno keeps saying must have a solution (if
comp is true).
Brent
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