On Mon, Mar 19, 2018 at 8:11 PM, Lawrence Crowell < [email protected]> wrote:
>> >> That’s nice. I repeat my question, NP-completeness is sorta weird and >> consciousness is sorta weird, but other than that is there any reason to >> think the two things are related? >> >> > > If you can't compute efficiently the map, > I don't even know what " compute efficiently the map " means. > > > > *how do you know this system will really upload brain states in such as > way that consciousness seemlessly carries from brain to computer?* > I don't know. I can never know for sure until I actually do it, if I notice that I'm not dead and I remember being me then and only then I'll know it worked. Maybe Black Holes and cadavers and piles of shit are conscious and maybe a computer that acts just like me is not, but I doubt it. In mattes like this all I can do is make a educated guess, and my guess is piles of shit are not conscious but a intelligent computer is. > > > Even if the entity in the computer is conscious it might not actually be > me. > If it remember being you then it is you. > *> If I could duplicate myself which of the two would "be me?"* That is a silly question. If you are duplicated in a duplicating machine then both are you because that's what the word "duplicated" means. I've gone over this crap for years with Bruno, if I wen't a n atheist I'd pray to God I don't have to repeat it with you. > > > As I see it there is a lot of hype here concealing the fact we really > know every little about this. But you seems to know all there about it, enough to quite literally bet your life on it not working. 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.
