On Monday, February 28, 2022 at 9:42:33 PM UTC+1 meeke...@gmail.com wrote:
> > > On 2/28/2022 12:23 PM, Tomas Pales wrote: > > > On Monday, February 28, 2022 at 2:48:48 PM UTC+1 Jason wrote: > >> >> >> On Sun, Feb 27, 2022, 11:43 AM Tomas Pales <litew...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >> Since reality is a mess of everything possible we might expect that the >>> regularities (laws) of our world may change or disappear any second, which >>> apparently doesn't happen. >>> >> >> Or you don't remember it happening: >> >> "When we die, the rules surely change. As our brains and bodies cease to >> function in the normal way, it takes greater and greater contrivances and >> coincidences to explain continuing consciousness by their operation. We >> lose our ties to physical reality, but, in the space of all possible >> worlds, that cannot be the end. Our consciousness continues to exist in >> some of those, and we will always find ourselves in worlds where we exist >> and never in ones where we don’t. The nature of the next simplest world >> that can host us, after we abandon physical law, I cannot guess." >> >> -- Hans Moravec in “Simulation, Consciousness, Existence” (1998) >> >> https://frc.ri.cmu.edu/~hpm/project.archive/general.articles/1998/SimConEx.98.html >> > > I am not sure that my consciousness would continue to exist in a different > world after it ended in this one. A copy of me might continue in another > world but it wouldn't be me, just someone who looks like me and has the > same history as me until the point of my death. > > > If it had the same memories as you wouldn't it be you? > It seems like asking that if there are two same cars aren't they the same car? > And would it be insane you if those memories were inconsistent with the > history of the world you found yourself in? And among all logically > possible worlds (which you think exist) aren't worlds like that in which > your memories and the recorded history in the world are inconsistent, > infinitely more numerous than those in which they are consistent? > A severe disconnect between an organism's memories and the history of its world appears to be an evolutionary disadvantage, heading for extinction even before the organism evolves enough complexity to hold a significant level of consciousness. > Have you read Robert Wilson's "Divided by Infinity". It's a short story: > https://www.tor.com/2010/08/05/divided-by-infinity/ > > Looks interesting. -- 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/fcef851a-bae2-433b-b51d-164258034b78n%40googlegroups.com.
