Lee Corbin writes:
> But in general, what do observer-moments explain? Or what does the
> hypothesis concerning them explain? I just don't get a good feel
> that there are any "higher level" phenomena which might be reduced
> to observer-moments (I am still very skeptical that all of physics
> or
Here's a hypothetical situation. Your plane goes down in the wilds and
you're rescued by a tribe indigenous to the area. You're wearing the
latest clothes from the GAP, so the tribe elders decide you're a candidate
for shaman apprentice--a position that comes with nice lodging and pays
well i
Hal Finney has provided some intriguing notions and possibly
some very useful explanations. But I would like help in clarifying
even the first several paragraphs, in order to maximize my
investment in the remainder.
But first a few comments; these may be premature, but if so,
the comments should b
Brent wrote
> -Original Message-
> From: Brent Meeker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Friday, June 03, 2005 8:39 AM
> To: Everything-List
> Subject: RE: Functionalism and People as Programs
> I think there is considerable evidence to support the view that human level
> intelligence cou
Stephen writes
> > Stephen writes
> >
> > > I really do not want to be a stick-in-the-mud here, but
> > > what do we base the idea that "copies" could exist upon?
Don't worry about not going along with someone's program ;-)
I think that you're just being polite by calling yourself
a stick-in-the-
At 12:36 PM 6/4/2005, Lee Corbin wrote:
R. Miller writes
> Lee Corbin wrote:
>
> Exposure to a nuclear detonation at 4000 yds typically kills about 1 in a
> million cells. When that happens, you die. I would suggest that is a
bad
> metaphor.
Well, my numbers, above, are *entirely* differe
R. Miller writes
> Lee Corbin wrote:
> >Stephen writes
> >
> > > I really do not want to be a stick-in-the-mud here,
> > > but what do we base the idea that "copies" could
> > > exist upon?
> >
> > It is a conjecture called "functionalism" (or one of its close variants).
>
> "Functionalism," at l
Sorry, but I don't have much of an idea of what is being discussed
in this thread. Could you try to enlighten me?
Rmiller originally wrote
> Equivalence
> If the individual exists simultaneously across a many-world manifold, then
> how can one even define a "copy?"
Well, I would say this (i.e.
Lee Corbin writes:
Stathis writes
> ...I think we may basically agree, but there are some differences. If
you
> look at it from a third person perspective, continuity of personal
identity
> over time is not only a delusion but a rather strange and inconsistent
> delusion.
I'm not quite sure
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