On Tue, Jun 18, 2019 at 6:51 AM Bruno Marchal <marc...@ulb.ac.be> wrote:
>> Me? I'm the one that needs to explains what "physical reality" >> means??!! I don't know what it means Bruno, it's your term not mine, >> that's why I wanted you to answer the above question so I could get some >> idea what you mean by it. > > > *> You are the one invoking it to say that some computations are real, and > other are not.* > And I gave a specific example of what I meant long ago, I now ask you to do the same. I said if the thing you call a "calculation" was physically real them INTEL was a fool for messing around with silicon and if it was not physically real then they were not fools and the company is unlikely to go out if business anytime soon. So I ask you again: If there *was *a "physical reality" how would things be different if there was *not *a "physical reality"? > *If we both agree that such a notion does not make sense, then stop > invoking it.* > Does that mean you will stop talking about "physicalism " and "materialism" and "primary matter" and "physical reality"? And I sure wish you'd stop talking about "machines " when the only example of one you can come up with is a few lines of ASCII characters. > *> You talk like if you new the truth. Of course Mechanism *is* an > assumption.* > See that's the trouble with you. Even on the rare occasions when you do give a clear concise definition you don't stick with it, there is no consistency in your definitions. You said Mechanism is the belief that "we can survive a digital brain transplant operation ", but there is no assumption involved in that, we know with as much certainty as we know anything that we can survive that because we already have, as I said 3 posts ago: " I know for a fact I have survived from the day I was born to today, and every day since I was born I have been undergoing a brain transplant operation, atoms are constantly shifting out of my brain and new atoms shifting in to replace them. My brain is made out of last year's mashed potatoes." I suppose if you wanted to be perverse you could say I have not survived and have in fact died every day since I was born, but then all you've done is redefine the word "death" to mean something trivial and I don't care if I "die" if that's what it means. When I use the word "die" I mean oblivion, and I stick with my definitions. >>But I still don't know if I believe in something you call "physicalism" >> because you can't explain how it would make any difference if it were true >> of not. > > > > *What are you missing in may explanation?* > Explanation? I heard a lot of bafflegab but no examples and you never answered my very reasonable question: How would a world where "physicalism" is true differ from a world where "physicalism" is not true? Until you answer that question I won't know what you mean by the word. > *> Did you not pay for cryogenic of your head after death?* > Yes I payed $80,000, unlike some people I put my money where my mouth is. > > *That is like saying “yes” to the doctor, indeed a future unknown > doctor.* > True. > > *All of transhumanism is based on the Mechanist hypothesis or act of > faith/hope.* > The act of faith/hope does not involve the general principle but the specific implementation. Will I really be frozen very soon after my death? As my brain is slowly brought down to liquid nitrogen temperatures will the inevitable fluid currents in it be laminar or chaotic? Will my brain really remain at liquid Nitrogen temperatures until Drexler style nanotechnology is developed? Will anybody in the distant future think I'm worth the bother of reviving? I don't know the answers to any of these questions and if the answer is no to even one of them then I'm dead, but I won't be any deader than if I was not frozen at all. *> With mechanism, given your brain to a digitalist surgeon, without > precaution, is like sending all your password on the net. If ever > mechanism is practised some day, most people will pay a lot to assure some > quantum security so that they don’t take the risk to be copied and to wake > up in the dungeon of some sadistic individuals …* > When you have surgery to fix an ingrown toenail you undergo general anesthesia and are unable to defend yourself, you could be kidnapped and wake up in the dungeon of a sadistic surgeon. It could happen but it probably won't , however that would be a far easier way to get people to torture than to repair and revive a brain frozen 100 years previously with primitive technology. If somebody goes to the trouble of reviving me I will be unable to give them anything of value in return, the only reason they'd do it is because they are benevolent. It's a long shot I know but I figure a slim chance is better than no chance at all. And besides, if Everett's Many World's is true then some version of you definitely will wake up in the dungeon of some sadistic individual regardless of if you're frozen or not. But if Everett is right why do I bother to get frozen at all? Because although Many Worlds is my favorite quantum interpretation I wouldn't bet my life on it. 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 everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv2aUGuwWH0ar4dZOVt5_qAt1%2B0PFZCPYpsTkC3DB-ZsNQ%40mail.gmail.com.
