On 25 Feb 2015, at 08:06, meekerdb wrote:
On 2/24/2015 10:28 PM, Bruce Kellett wrote:
Stathis Papaioannou wrote:
On Wednesday, February 25, 2015, Bruce Kellett <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
First person indeterminacy is just another name for "in-principle
unknowable"!
No it's not. It provides an explanation of how the world can be
completely deterministic but to you as an observer within it
appear truly random, so that not even God would be able to tell
you what you will experience next.
That seems to me to be a very good case of something being "in-
principle unknowable". If it is not "in-principle unknowable", the
onus is on you to spell out the principles and circumstances in
which the time of the radioactive decay of a particular atom is
knowable in advance.
MWI means, "I know it when I see it." :-)
But more seriously, for FPI to apply to radioactive decay requires a
continuum of observers to observe the decay at all times.
Assuming a continuous time. Yes. But computationalism already implies
such continuum self-multiplication, and this without assuming QM. So
QM (MWI) confirms computationalism. Indeed it confirms its most
admittedly startling/shocking feature (the infinite multiplication of
the observers).
This explains also a mystery in philosophy of mind: how consciousness
is singularized by a finite process. The explanation is that
consciousness does not singularize the subject. We are type, not
token. Comp is: many-types, no token.
Bruno
Brent
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