> On 10 Jul 2021, at 21:45, 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > 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] >>>> <applewebdata://04132C56-3699-4002-9E23-EA3E9A85FE7D>> 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?
To encode the relevant information such that I survive the copy/reconstitution. The possibility of this is assumed in the YD part of the YD+CT. YD = “Yes doctor”, and CT = Church’s Thesis (or Church-Turing’s thesis). Bruno > > Brent > >> >> An electronic orbital is such a map: it tells you where you can find the >> electron in your most probable computational histories. >> >> Bruno >> >> >> >> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> 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] >>> <mailto:[email protected]>. >>> To view this discussion on the web visit >>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/ac93cc4b-eecd-4c66-ad68-45b61bd81d47n%40googlegroups.com >>> >>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/ac93cc4b-eecd-4c66-ad68-45b61bd81d47n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>. >> >> -- >> 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] >> <mailto:[email protected]>. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/8998ABE3-8471-4F97-B511-998136000ECE%40ulb.ac.be >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/8998ABE3-8471-4F97-B511-998136000ECE%40ulb.ac.be?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>. > > > -- > 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] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/057a2d1a-9183-c316-eb03-74996e661ec3%40verizon.net > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/057a2d1a-9183-c316-eb03-74996e661ec3%40verizon.net?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>. -- 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/06FB53AB-64AD-4761-B523-26F9E228D707%40ulb.ac.be.
