I red Gao's books a few years back. He was teaching at the University of Sidney if I recall correctly. I liked his stuff but didn't seem useful to my focused interests. Changing subjects, how about this for a BS thought? One consciousness, yourself, of with everyone else, spanning other Everett Universes? I mean in such universes we would not have to do infancy all over again, or spin off different individuals, we'd just arrive in universes where spontaneous Resurrection is workable, as in the Law. Eh, I work all night so I am given to these specious thoughts. Or, maybe just one universe but we get instantly re-created in different, vastly, distant domains or just places?
-----Original Message----- From: 'scerir' via Everything List <everything-list@googlegroups.com> To: everything-list <everything-list@googlegroups.com> Sent: Sun, Aug 13, 2017 3:30 am Subject: R: Re: A profound lack of profundity First person, second person, and third person are basically grammatical categories: first person, I/we, second person, you/you, third person, him/them. The third independent person plays a central role in the interpretation of perceptual evidence in terms of reliable conceptual models of the world. What do you think 3p means? Bruce BTW, Shan Gao just published this paper https://www.academia. edu/34156349/Failure_of_psychophysical_supervenience_in_Everetts_theory 'Failure of psychophysical superveniencein Everett’s theory' (abstract) Psychophysical supervenience requires that the mental propertiesof a system cannot change without the change of its physical properties.For a system with many minds, the principle requires that the men-tal properties of each mind of the system cannot change without thechange of the physical properties of the system. In this paper, I arguethat Everett’s theory seems to violate this principle of psychophysicalsupervenience. The violation results from the three key assumptionsof the theory: (1) the completeness of the physical description by thewave function, (2) the linearity of the dynamics for the wave func-tion, and (3) multiplicity. For a post-measurement state with twodecoherent result branches, multiplicity means that each result branchcorresponds to a mindful observer, whose mental properties superveneon the branch, and in particular, whose mental content contains a def-inite record corresponding to the result branch. Under certain unitaryevolution which swaps the two result branches, the post-measurementstate does not change, and the completeness of the physical descriptionby the wave function then means that the physical state of the com-posite system does not change. While the linearity of the dynamicsfor the wave function requires that each result branch changes, andcorrespondingly the mental properties of the observer which superveneon the branch also change. Thus the principle of psychophysical su- pervenience as defined above is violated by Everett’s theory. I did not read it but, maybe, it is about "identity" and "x-person" -- 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 everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. 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 everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
