On Fri, Sep 13, 2019 at 4:14 PM Quentin Anciaux <[email protected]> wrote:
> Le ven. 13 sept. 2019 à 08:03, Bruce Kellett <[email protected]> a > écrit : > >> >> Yes. QI is possible only in a many-worlds scenario, but that does not >> necessarily mean that any many-worlds scenario implies QI. As you say, most >> of life's significant events are quasi-classical in origin, not decoherence >> amplified quantum events. One could be "copied" by quantum events that are >> irrelevant to your survival. For example, by the splitting of worlds >> occasioned by someone shining a laser on a half-silvered mirror. That just >> increases the number of copies, all of which probably survive that >> splitting process. >> >> As another aside, it seems to me that Stathis's RSSA, with measure along >> the lifeline decreasing in accordance with Born's rule (as Russell Standish >> puts it in his book "Theory of Nothing"), is equivalent to a collapse model >> (or the existence of a dualist "soul" as I put it before). >> > > Wel if by "dualist soul" you mean something immaterial about our > consciousness (like I don't know information) can be duplicated then yes it > is dualist and any computational theory of mind is dualist in this sense > then. I suppose you would say that if someone believe "he" can be copied > and uploaded in a virtual environment then he is a dualist ? > That is not implied by anything I said. If the measure along your lifeline decreases according to the Born rule, as Russell suggests, then one is effectively saying that after quantum duplication, the soul chooses one copy at random, and that is the one that is "you". This is effectively a collapse model -- all duplicates except the one randomly chosen cease to be you. I am certainly not advocating such a position, I was just pointing out that that is what RSSA amounts to. Bruce -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAFxXSLR81qLRcVLsJDDpqjap_20SH6Lbdxk1PZWPhvHFjQVSYw%40mail.gmail.com.
