Gentlemen,I think that we all must be
"zombies who behave as if they are conscious," in the sense that a snapshot
of any of us could, in principle, be precisely represented by a string of
zeroes and ones.If it is true that the multiverse is infinite in
space-time, is it not true that anythin
On Sat, May 07, 2005 at 01:55:39PM -0700, "Hal Finney" wrote:
> Sure, in fact I first learned of the idea from one of Tegmark's
> papers, he who is unknowingly one of the founding fathers of this list.
Unknowingly? Tegmark was certainly involved in this list in the early
days, but I suspect he doe
Dear Norman,
You make a very interesting point (the
first point) and I think that we could all agree upon it as it is but
I notice that you used two words that put a sizable dent in the COMP idea:
"snapshot" and "precisely represented". It seems that we might all agree that we
would b
Dear Stephen,I have no doubt that your critique of my
two statements is correct according to your understanding of what I
said. However, I think that I was unsuccessful in conveying what
I meant. Let me try again. (Effective communication is, for me
at least, very difficult in this forum.
I am a mere layperson who
follows your discussions with great interest, so forgive me if I'm about to ask
a question whose answer is apparent to all but me. I am very familiar with
the "first person" and "third person" concept in everyday life and literature,
but I am a little unclear a
Hi Jeanne:
It is much the same thing. More or less the first person is the one
standing in Bruno's transporter and the third person is the one operating
it.
Several years ago I started a FAQ for this list but lacked the necessary
time to finish.
Hal Ruhl
At 02:54 PM 5/8/2005, you wrote:
Greetings to Wei Dai and many old friends. I'll post a
JOIN letter soon.
Meanwhile---as is no doubt usual on the Everything list
---much ado is being made of much ado! :-)
CMR ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote
> I wonder if Davies is not on to something when he posits
> that "strong emergent" phenomena
The simplest description can be found in Max Tegamark's paper "Is an
Ensemble theory the ultimate TOE?". He uses the term "frog
perspective" for 1st person, and "bird perspective" for 3rd person.
Bruno Marchal has also written quite a bit about it in Chapter 5 of
his (Lille) thesis. This is unfort
Greetings
Well, it's of course always *possible* that what we see
cannot really be explained by current knowledge. Even
Galileo must have wondered if yet further laws were
really governing his falling objects, laws beyond
d = (1/2)t^2 and g = at. (He would have been right to
wonder, of course, sin
You're right in one way, but there *is* a difference between what we
experience in the first person and everything else. It is *possible* to
doubt everything about the external world, but it is *impossible* to doubt
that you are having a first person experience/ a thought/ an
observer-moment/ w
Picking up a thread from a little while ago:
>>Jonathan Colvin: That's a good question. I can think of a chess position
that is
>>a-priori illegal. But our macroscopic world is so complex it is far
>>from obvious what is allowed and what is forbidden.
>
>Jesse Mazer: So what if some chess positi
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