a universal Turing machine, the input strings would have to be
different for different compilers).
Yes. However, the reality makes the term a specific algorithm somewhat
blurry, and more difficult to measure.
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lenses made of
plastic and not of tissue, prostheses made of titanium steel and not of
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I seem to not be coming through, so this will be the last post on my part
in this thread, for a long while.
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as a pebble in Gobi hopping through a fluke in Brownian noise.
(More abstract machines can be more forgiving, in regards of what is
well-formed).
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There are simpler and more economical ways to do things, and we'll be there
in about 20-30 years. Meanwhile, biology reigns supreme in crunch/Joule,
integration density, error tolerance and a few other things, but we're
gaining on it rapidly.
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the performance is variable, I think they're talking about
some measure of performance during a single execution of a given program,
not about repeating the execution of the same program multiple times and
finding variations from one run to another.
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of these patients can cause gross
cognitive and behavioural changes.
http://www.google.com/search?num=100hl=enlr=safe=offclient=firefox-arls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficialq=molecular+schizophreniabtnG=Search
would seem to disagree.
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the best strategy would
be research into brain-computer interfacing.
What is your estimated time frame for advent of technology like
http://nanomedicine.com/
I, personally, am not holding my breath. YMMV.
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otherwise, why would all this
complexity have evolved?
I do not understand your objections here.
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it with several liters of
active nanomachinery. Most likely, no such machinery will be available within
our lifetime.
Because of this I'm focusing on cryopreserved people.
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friends could see anything
wrong with it.
I understand such drugs are currently considered for an early therapy for
traumatic incidents (if you can't remember it, you won't be traumatized by
recurring memories).
Experiences are real, whether you remember them or not.
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to make most of it out.
Perhaps you could add some redundancy to your tight prose?
Sorry to be so dense, sometimes I have to post under time constraints, in a
distracting environment. Will try to mend in future.
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gene activity, etc.etc) are very different.
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, because I don't like solipsism.
Why don't we terminate this pointless thread, until we can actually make
numerical
models of sufficiently complex animals and people, so the question completely
renders itself irrelevant?
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different
scenaries, or think invidividual thoughts.
It's a degenerate case, and rather uninteresting (but relevant for High
Availability / Failover clusters -- HA, heartbeat, drbd, stonith).
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*we* approach those questions.
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On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 04:05:02AM -0700, Jonathan Colvin wrote:
Now, the funny thing is, if you replace torture by getting shot in the
head, then I will pick (2). That's interesting, isn't it?
Why is that interesting? It's indistinguishable from a teleportation
scenario.
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avialable FAQ on the nature
of identity, given how often exactly the same issues come up, over the years.
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. And since the light right now is red, red must
correspond with the 10^100 copy state and green with the single copy state.
But just as you are about to write down your conclusion, the light changes
to green...
What's wrong with the reasoning here?
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it in QC to be able to read the
result. IANAP, though, so above may be wrong.
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to build the substrate to contain it, even with
molecular fabrication.
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just only you, regardless how many
instantiations. The evolution trajectory is identical.
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, built from information or
otherwise, I'm very much opposed to mysticism.
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is the same thing as the brain state.
I still don't understand why you think ethics isn't a noisy set of behaviour
algorithms, and is not a domain of science.
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,
so assuming an universe we're currently observing is not doesn't require
trivial resources to run there's a negative pressure on the motivations to
run it.
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within them? In there, somewhere?
Mathematicians are production systems. Input is coffee, output is theorem.
no need to talk about different types of reality.
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will) only makes
sense if you're God.
For us meek end users, the difference is undetectable.
Well, I hope I have not bored you all, but I do think that there are
considerations from the social sciences that bear on -- and possibly
challenge -- Tegmark's thesis.
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that multiverse exists, most of those seem to do without as well.
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fabric of reality, because I'm a
mathematician. Bow before me, for I see the mind of God.
Sorry, that's extremely weak, even for a mathematician.
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with the rest of
your list.
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for me
to provide more explanations.
Also, I thought you were postulating an universe, aren't you? (I just try
Sure, we're having a conversation (albeit a bit surreal one), so we seem to exist.
to figure out your philosophical basic hypothesis).
Regards,
Bruno
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timeflow looks like in a HashLife
universe?
http://www.ericweisstein.com/encyclopedias/life/HashLife.html
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by definition), but assuming
universe exists because numbers exist does strike me
as a yet another faith.
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as meaningless as 2+2=4.
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Why don't we see Others?
I think the anthropic principle neatly explains both scenarios: why we're
here, yet nobody else seems to be.
If life nucleation density is arbitrarily low (e.g. 1/visible univers) we
still wouldn't fail to observe our existance.
It is also worthwhile to mention that
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