Re: Holiday Exercise

2016-08-14 Thread John Clark
On Sun, Aug 14, 2016 at 11:45 AM, Bruno Marchal  wrote:

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>> ​I saw only a apple, my friend saw only a banana, what is *THE* one and
>> only fruit that *BOTH* me *AND* my friend ​saw? Silly question.
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> I agree so much with you on this!
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> Although the question is not silly when asked to the Helsinki guy before
> his duplication, as he will live, assuming computationalism, two different
> first person continuations.
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​And here we go again with the "his" and  "he"  pronoun circus. John Clark
will rephrase what Bruno Marchal said above but ​

​without using a "he" colored personal pronoun rug to sweep fuzzy thinking
under:

*The question​ of what one and only one city ​the Helsinki ​man will see
after the Helsinki ​man​ is duplicated is not silly when asked ​to​​​ the
Helsinki ​man​ before ​the Helsinki ​man's ​duplication, as​ ​​​after the
Helsinki ​man's duplication the Helsinki ​man will live in 2 different
cities. *

​John Clark disagrees, John Clark thinks that is a very very silly
question.​


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> No diary contains a description of the first person (conscious or not)
> experience
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​Then there is no reason to ever refer to that stupid diary ever again.​



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> "I (here and now) saw directly, after opening the door
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​Please specify
​ which door the above refers to, the one in Moscow or the one in
Washington.​


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> I recall the main tip that you seem to forget all the time: to get the
> first person records,
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​Please specify exactly who's first person records should be gotten.


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> listen to your copies.
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 ​Please specify exactly
​ who should be doing the listening. ​

 John K Clark
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Re: Holiday Exercise

2016-08-14 Thread Bruno Marchal


On 12 Aug 2016, at 18:40, John Clark wrote:

On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 10:42 AM, Bruno Marchal   
wrote:


"The" first person experience you will live is "the" experience,  
that both copies witnesses when I interview them both


​I saw only a apple, my friend saw only a banana, what is THE one  
and only fruit that BOTH me AND my friend ​​saw? Silly question.



I agree so much with you on this!

Although the question is not silly when asked to the Helsinki guy  
before his duplication, as he will live, assuming computationalism,  
two different first person continuations.


Each of them is consistent with being the Helsinki guy, but are first  
person inconsistent when taken together, as in this precise protocol,  
computationalism makes the two copies into independent individual  
persons.
(No diary contains a description of the first person (conscious or  
not) experience:
 "I (here and now) saw directly, after opening the door the two  
cities").


As both copies are genuine survivors, we listen to them both, and both  
told us that they got a non predictable bit of information: W or M  
among {W, M}. With principle 1 and 2, it follows that the guy in  
Helsinki was in a first person indeterminacy situation, and that  
precise protocol suggests P(W) = P(M) = 1/2. Indeed its iteration  
leads naturally to Pascal Triangle and the Gaussian curve as the  
number of duplication is iterated.


I recall the main tip that you seem to forget all the time: to get the  
first person records, listen to your copies.


Bruno









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