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From: smitra <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Sat, Jun 19, 2021 7:17 am
Subject: Re: Which philosopher or neuro/AI scientist has the best theory
of consciousness?
This resolves
paradoxes you get in thought experiments where you consider simulating a
brain in a virtual world and then argue that since the simulation is
deterministic, you could replace the actual computer doing the
computations by a device playing a recording of the physical brain
states. This argument breaks down if you take into account the
self-localization ambiguity and consider that this multiverse aspect is
an essential part of consciousness due to counterfactuals necessary to
define the algorithm being realized, which is impossible in a
deterministic single-world setting.
But it's not a paradox in a probabilistic single-world.
Brent
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