On 20 January 2014 03:03, Jason Resch <[email protected]> wrote: > Could an uploaded brain running on a deterministic computer act > irrationally or creatively? (assuming it's entire source code was open > source and it had no access to enviromental randomness) >
According to comp it could, because it's equivalent to a brain. Aside from that, it could of course act irrationally. Although I don't even know how to define rational or irrational behaviour. Maybe someone could do that sometime! Creatively - why not? Although I'm not sure about the environmental randomness clause - it would probably need to interact with a virtual world in order to act in any way at all, so the virtual world would have to also be deterministic. But according to QM+MWI the world *is* deterministic... -- 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.
