On 7/10/2021 1:48 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote:
On 6 Jul 2021, at 16:45, Tomas Pales <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
On Tuesday, July 6, 2021 at 10:28:11 AM UTC+2 Bruno Marchal wrote:
On 3 Jul 2021, at 14:13, Tomas Pales <[email protected]> wrote:
Can't there be a machine that computes gravitational interaction
with gravitational constant 6.674 x 10 to the -11 up until some
time t and then continues the computation with gravitational
constant 5 x 10 to the -11, or just halts? That would be an
instability or cessation of gravitational law.
Yes, and that exists, but such world will have a very low
probability to be accessed by any observer, due to the fact that,
below our mechanist substitution level, all such theories intervene.
How low is this probability? Is it maybe as low as the probability
that my whole body quantum-tunnels through a wall?
Yes.
What does it mean that "below our mechanist substitution level, all
such theories intervene”?
If your consciousness does not require some details: like the position
of an electron of some atom in some neurotransmitter (say), then it
will be associate as much with your brain and that election here, and
with you brain and that electron there, and if you don’t measure the
position of that electron, the two histories can interfere statistically.
What would it mean to measure the state of your own brain?
Brent
An electronic orbital is such a map: it tells you where you can find
the electron in your most probable computational histories.
Bruno
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