On Fri, May 08, 2015 at 03:14:42AM +1000, Stathis Papaioannou wrote: > > Why can't playing the equivalent of a recording made de novo (i.e. there > was no original) instantiate the conscious moment for the first time? >
That is such a fantastically improbable outcome that Harry Potter universes are mundane occurrences, and we might as well admit magic into our explanations of reality. Seriously, in that case, all bets are off. Arguments based on intuition (such as the MGA) just fail under those circumstances. Cheers -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Professor of Mathematics [email protected] University of New South Wales http://www.hpcoders.com.au ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- 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/d/optout.
