Yes my understanding would be the same. Although the brain or computer's
ability to correctly represent the information about what has happened has
been destroyed by the reset, the information itself is still embedded in
the environment. Resetting registers in a computer does not actually
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On 8/14/2013 6:41 PM, smi...@zonnet.nl wrote:
I guess I don't understand that. You seem to be considering a
simple case of amnesia - all purely classical - so I don't see how
MWI enters at all. The probabilities are just ignorance
uncertainty.
What are monads ?
Now we must enter the world of metaphysics in order to understand events
more complex or larger than single events.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universals#Problem_of_universals
The noun universal contrasts with individual, while the adjective
I agree that it is useful to try to see things from the genes point of view
Yes
without of course falling into the mental trap of anthropomorphizing
the gene and assigning to it qualia that are associated with self-aware
consciousness.
I am unaware of any thinker on evolution worthy of
Hi John -- I would hope they don't :)
When I made that statement, I was not thinking so much of the serious
researcher. However I do think it is important to communicate that genes are
not alive, in any real sense, nor are they motivated by some survival instinct,
not for the researchers
Darwin could explain how simple organisms could become more complex, but he
didn't even attempt to explain how the first organism came into existence
because before natural selection can kick in you need some sort of heredity.
Recently there has been some discussion about clays playing a
Here's a fascinating essay by Scott Aronson that is a really scientific, operational
exposition on the question of 'free will'; one which takes my idea that if you solve the
engineering problem you may solve the philosophical problem along the way and does much
more with it than I could.
He
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