On 14 February 2014 12:46, chris peck <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Liz > > >>Personally, I feel that objections to comp on the basis of what we can > and can't do with our present technology are a bit hair splitting, or > perhaps simply evading the issue. Anyone who has accepted the MWI has > accepted that duplication is possible. > > my objections were to do with the correct way to predict expectancy in a > universe in which every possible outcome occurs. They didn't concern > technological limitations. I don't think anyone has objected on that score > have they? > Some people have objected on the basis that we can't duplicate people, for example. I think the "expectation value objection" is a valid one (and Bruno agrees that it is an open problem in comp) - we have no way to work out what we should expect to see on the basis of an infinite number of computations (I think the MWI has a similar problem?) > > All the best > > Chris. > > ------------------------------ > Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2014 12:31:28 +1300 > > Subject: Re: Suicide Words God and Ideas > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > > Personally, I feel that objections to comp on the basis of what we can and > can't do with our present technology are a bit hair splitting, or perhaps > simply evading the issue. Anyone who has accepted the MWI has accepted that > duplication is possible. (And anyone who thinks consciousness is digital > above the quantum level has accepted "Yes Doctor".) > > If there's a valid objection, I think it should be a bit more robust than > "oh but we can't do that (yet) !" > > > -- > 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. > > -- > 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. > -- 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.
