On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 11:24 AM, John Clark <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 1:47 AM, Jason Resch <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> You agreed already that a conscious uploaded mind in a process that forks >> and diverges is from the uploaded mind's point of view, an experience >> indistinguishable from fundamental randomness. >> >> If it is indistinguishable from randomness, then would you also agree >> that the experience of going through a process fork, as with an experience >> involving fundamental randomness, cannot be predicted by any means? >> > > Forget about giving the correct prediction, a prediction can't even be > described by any means. Bruno thinks we can repeat the experiment and > compile statistics from it and then compare the number obtained from > experiment with the theoretical prediction, but who exactly was the > prediction about? If the prediction was about > Jason Resch > one number is obtained, > If the prediction > is > about > the man currently experiencing Helsinki a different number is > obtained, > If the prediction > was > about > the Moscow Man a third number is obtained, > > If the prediction > was > about > the Washington Man yet another number is obtained, and if the prediction > was about "you" no number at all is obtained because Bruno doesn't know how > to give a consistent meaning to the personal pronoun "you". > > > > If I understand what you say above, your position is that the question has no answer? Jason -- 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.
