On Tue, May 23, 2023 at 4:30 PM Terren Suydam <terren.suy...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> If I could instantly stop all physical processes that are going on >> inside your head for one year and then start them up again, to an >> outside objective observer you would appear to lose consciousness for one >> year, but to you your consciousness would still feel continuous but the >> outside world would appear to have discontinuously jumped to something >> new. >> > > *> I meant continuous in terms of the flow of state from one moment to the > next. What you're describing is continuous because it's not the passage of > time that needs to be continuous, but the state of information in the model > as the physical processes evolve*. > Sorry but it's not at all clear to me what you're talking about. If the state of information is not evolving in time then what in the world is it evolving in?! If nothing changes then nothing can evolve, and the very definition of time stopping is that nothing changes and nothing evolves. John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis> xqj -- 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/CAJPayv3gS3MO24ERbpdjopdJ%3DC_a-FEw8%2Bue08AxowskfBwOFQ%40mail.gmail.com.
