On Tue, 15 Aug 2017 at 9:09 am, John Clark <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 14, 2017 Stathis Papaioannou <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> By their behaviour, rats show an operational understanding of >> probability. > > > That because a rat can remember the past and a rat can use induction to > make a prediction, and most important of all a rat knows if it's prediction > turned out to be correct or not and that enables the rat to improve its > induction process for Mr. Rat's next prediction. But if Mr. I, who is about > to enter a "I" duplicating chamber, asks the question "Will I see Moscow > tomorrow?" the only answer Mr. I will ever get is "yes and no", and that is > not an answer so that was not a question. > If even the rat can understand it at a primitive level (as demonstrated by its behaviour) then I think this goes against your claim that the question is meaningless. And I think that if you went through the duplication a few times your copies would start to behave as if questions about their future were meaningful. > -- Stathis Papaioannou -- 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.
