Re: Variations in measure

2001-12-09 Thread Saibal Mitra
Russel wrote: Saibal Mitra wrote: Hal wrote: One of the concepts we have explored is that all universes and hence all minds exist, but that some observer-moments have greater measure than others. This may help to explain why we observe the kind of universe that we do,

Re: The Simulation Argument

2001-12-09 Thread Nick Bostrom
Hal wrote: I wonder if you consider the possibility that there is no matter of fact as to whether we are living in a simulation? Suppose that we live in real life, and also get simulated one or more times, then our consciousness cannot be localized to any specific instantiation. A