Stathis writes
This brings up an interesting conundrum that I raised three or four torture
experiments ago. Given 10 instantiations of a person having an unpleasant
experience E ... for example 10 sentient programs running in parallel, is
it better, if we aim to reduce suffering, to (a)
On Mon, Jun 27, 2005 at 10:42:17PM -0700, Lee Corbin wrote:
No, it's not the same program.
What do you mean? I am postulating that it *is* the same sequence
of code bytes, the *same* program. Do you know what I mean when
I say that program A is the same program as program B?
An
Lee Corbin writes:
This brings up an interesting conundrum that I raised three or four
torture
experiments ago. Given 10 instantiations of a person having an
unpleasant
experience E ... for example 10 sentient programs running in parallel,
is
it better, if we aim to reduce suffering, to
Hello;
My name is Chris Peck, this is my joining post. I have not seen anyone
elses, so im not entirely sure what's expected.
I have Ba in Philosophy from University College London, and an MSc in IT
from the same institution.
Im interested in philosophy of science - particularly the
Le 28-juin-05, à 17:05, chris peck wrote (quoting Kripke)
'Some philosophers think that something's having intuitive content is
very inconclusive evidence in favor of it. I think that it is very
heavy evidence in favor of anything myself. I really don't know, in a
way, what more conclusive
[Brian Holtz]
If two spacetime-disconnected regions are causally disconnected (such that
none of the events in each has any possibility of influence on any events in
the other), then it seems pure artifice to say the regions are in the same
world. You could as easily say that all possible events
Dear Lee, and Stathis,
I have been pondering the various threads discussing OMs and
continuity requirements and have a couple of questions.
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Eugen writes
I am postulating that it *is* the same sequence
of code bytes, the *same* program. Do you know what I mean when
I say that program A is the same program as program B?
An instantiated program is much more than a sequence of
bytes -- it also has state. Most programs do not
Hi Chris,
Welcome! I look forward to your posts. ;-)
BTW, I have neglected to post my own Joining statement, so let me
introduce myself. I am a self-taught student of philosophy of science,
specializing on the Problems of Time and Consciousness. I somewhat follow
Chalmers' ideas on
Stephen writes
[LC]
I'm skeptical of continuity requirements. Now I do not believe in
Greg Egan's equations in Permutation City: according to a premise
of the story, it order to obtain the you of tomorrow, there is a
short-cut alternative to just letting you run. And that is to
Stathis writes
[Lee wrote]
Here is the dreadful closest continuer method of Nozick and
others. I claim it gives the wrong answer. Look, the continuation
happens anyway, whether you die here or not! Especially if the
events are outside each other's light cones, how can what happens
Dear Lee,
Are you familiar with any of the experiments that have been performed
regarding quantum counterfactuals or null measurements? It turns out
that the fact that some particular measure *was not made* counts just as
much, and thus affects the results of a measurement, of an actual
At 10:31 PM 6/28/2005, Stephen Paul King wrote:
Dear Lee,
Are you familiar with any of the experiments that have been performed
regarding quantum counterfactuals or null measurements? It turns out
that the fact that some particular measure *was not made* counts just as
much, and thus
Dear Richard,
AFAIK, Feynman never discussed this. It first shows up in Vaidman's
work, I may be wrong:
http://www.nature.com/news/1999/991216/pf/991216-3_pf.html
http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/archive/1108/00/kast-disHYP.pdf
Stephen
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