On 5/11/2015 9:06 PM, smitra wrote:
On 12-05-2015 03:54, Bruce Kellett wrote:
As stated above, counterfactual correctness is not required to
reproduce just the one original conscious moment.
This is where I disagree from the others in this discussion group. Imagine someone
having some definite experience. Given the complexity of the human brain, there are then
an astronomically large number of physically distinct states his brain could be in.
Given what this person experiences and assuming the validity of the MWI, it would be
unreasonable to assume that this person should picture himself to be located on a single
MWI branch.
Taking that into account a simple resolution of the MGA is to assume that a single
conscious experience should be defined as an operator that defines that conscious
experience as a computation which is then defined as a mapping from a set of initial
states to final states of the form:
O = sum_inputs i1,i2,i3,...,in of |j1,j2,j3,...,jn><i1,i2,i3,..,in|
Do I understand correctly, you mean a single experience is a kind of big lookup table
encompassing n different inputs?
Brent
One cannot debunk this by saying that you could in principle observe that some person is
in some precisely defined state. You can never make such an observation because the
information would not fit in your brain. Only a hypothetical super observer could make
such an observation, but that observer would exist in a far narrower set of MWI
branches. So, in his World we don't exist.
Saibal
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