On 4/28/2019 8:33 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote:
Indexical Digital Mechanism, or simply Mechanism, is the idea that we can survive with an artificial brain. It is the idea that my consciousness, or my first-person experience, is invariant for some functional digital substitution of my brain/body at some level of substitution (neurons, or perhaps atoms, or quarks and electron, or strings, etc.).
But notice that already quantum mechanics strongly limits this.?? By Holevo's theorem only half the information defining one's state can be read.?? I agree that the brain processes instantiating thoughts that define our memories and character are mostly classical and therefore can be read, there will be, statistically, some variation between the original and a copy and between two copies.???? So it becomes a question of whether this variation is significant...not whether it can be eliminated by going to "some level of substitution".
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