On 6/7/2018 10:12 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote:
On 7 Jun 2018, at 02:26, Brent Meeker <[email protected]> wrote:
On 6/6/2018 10:28 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote:
It does. When the machine opts for <>p in the doubt between p and <>p, if it
let it go, in some sense, it transforms itself into a more speedy and more efficacious
machine, with respect to its most probable history.
So, consciousness brings a self-speedable ability, which is quite handy for
self-moving being living in between a prey and a predator.
Do you play tennis, Bruno? Try thinking consciously about your strokes to
speed up your game.
Consciousness speed all computations (to be sure it is only on all inputs
except a finite number of exception, so it might not be directly practical),
but if that happen, you can guess that the one computing more quickly will be
better at tennis.
Computing more quickly, but unconsciously. However, I don't see
anyplace for the unconscious in your theory. Yet almost all thinking,
as information processing, is unconscious.
When its opponent strike the ball, he feels (rightly) that has more time to
react.
I did not say that trying to be conscious cannot also impair. Just that
consciousness speed-up the whole process. (Admittedly not in a usable
algorithmic way). That still can be self for entities not aware of the first
person delays, confronted to the limiting sum on all computations, here and
now, below their substitution level.
The "limiting sum on all computations" refers to your model of the UD.
But that is timeless, i.e. exists in Platonia.
Brent
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