On Fri, Jun 10, 2016 at 4:37 PM, John Clark <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Jun 9, 2016 Brent Meeker <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> > >> His >> [Bruno's] >> consciousness is a certain pattern of computational threads and these >> exist eternally (in PA or equivalent). Poisoning his material merely makes >> it impossible for his consciousness to be manifested in this branch of the >> multiverse. > > > But WHY? Why does a particular form of matter make it impossible for his > consciousness to exist in that branch of the multiverse if matter is not > needed for consciousness?
Because, under this hypothesis, Bruno's body, the poison and all other material things that you can observe are byproducts of an underlying reality that you do not observe directly. > Bruno has no answer but I do. > > John K Clark > > > > > -- > 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 https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
