Russell Standish wrote:
Perhaps you need to study the UD algorithm. For any program x, there will be finitely numbered step on the algorithm when the first instruction is executed. Similarly for the nth step of program x. Presumably, for any given observer moment, only a finite number of steps are required to emulate that observer moment, so the UD will run enough of a given program to emulate any observer moment within a finite amount of CPU time.
OK. But the problem would be that for any particular realization of a conscious moment at some finite step number there are still an infinite number of uncomputed realizations of the same conscious moment, most of which are in different environments. Are such identical conscious moments at different step numbers distinct? Or different instances of the same moment (hence FPI)? Are they treated differently or summed over? In which case the fact the infinitely many of them are not computed at any given point becomes something of a worry.
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