RE: Conventional QTI = False

2001-09-12 Thread Charles Goodwin
-Original Message- From: Russell Standish [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] I wasn't referring to that snippet, but another one discussing the evolution of superclusters of galaxies. The theory predicts that the universe will ultimately come to be dominated by said clusters. The snippet I

Re: Conventional QTI = False

2001-09-12 Thread Russell Standish
I wasn't referring to that snippet, but another one discussing the evolution of superclusters of galaxies. The theory predicts that the universe will ultimately come to be dominated by said clusters. The snippet I mentioned seems to be referring to our measured velocity of ca 600km/s in the

Re: Conventional QTI = False

2001-09-11 Thread Jacques Mallah
From: Russell Standish [EMAIL PROTECTED] I suspect you are trying to find ways of making QTI compatible with Jacques ASSA based argument, when it is clear his argument fails completely. Not that the argument is unimportant, as the reasons for the failure are also interesting. What the hell

Re: Conventional QTI = False

2001-09-11 Thread Russell Standish
-Original Message- From: Russell Standish [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, 12 September 2001 12:35 p.m. To: Charles Goodwin Cc: Everything-List (E-mail) Subject: Re: Conventional QTI = False The reason for failure of Jacques' argument is no. 1) from Charles's list

Re: Conventional QTI = False

2001-09-11 Thread George Levy
Hi Saibal, I don't know if there is an accepted formulation for QTI and the conservation of memory, however, the only constraint that seems logical to me is that the consciousness extensions should be logically consistent, because logical consistenty is a prerequisite for consciousness. I can

RE: Conventional QTI = False

2001-09-11 Thread Charles Goodwin
-Original Message- From: George Levy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, 12 September 2001 10:48 a.m. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Conventional QTI = False Charles Goodwin wrote: George Levy wrote I don't know if there is an accepted formulation for QTI

Re: Conventional QTI = False

2001-09-11 Thread George Levy
The lines are too large for my screen to handle but I have fixed that by setting my Netscape to wrap automatically (it does so at around 70 characters). The output is irregular but it's OK. Charles Goodwin wrote: Re wrapping around - I've set MS Outlook to wrap at 132 characters (the largest

RE: Conventional QTI = False

2001-09-11 Thread Charles Goodwin
-Original Message- From: Jacques Mallah [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] From: Russell Standish [EMAIL PROTECTED] I suspect you are trying to find ways of making QTI compatible with Jacques ASSA based argument, when it is clear his argument fails completely. Not that the argument is

RE: Conventional QTI = False

2001-09-11 Thread Charles Goodwin
-Original Message- From: Russell Standish [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Except that it is possible to perform an infinite amount of computation in the big crunch due to Tipler's argument, and only a finite amount of computation with the open universe (Dyson's argument). Sort of the

Re: Conventional QTI = False

2001-09-11 Thread Russell Standish
The reason for failure of Jacques' argument is no. 1) from Charles's list below, which he obviously thought of independently of me. I originally posted this at http://www.escribe.com/science/theory/m583.html, on 10th May 1999. Unfortunately, I couldn't find where the orginal SSA argument was

RE: Conventional QTI = False

2001-09-11 Thread Charles Goodwin
that he'll live to be 80 is 1/80?) Charles -Original Message- From: Russell Standish [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, 12 September 2001 12:35 p.m. To: Charles Goodwin Cc: Everything-List (E-mail) Subject: Re: Conventional QTI = False The reason for failure of Jacques

Re: Conventional QTI = False

2001-09-10 Thread Russell Standish
Never heard of this reasoning before. Can you expand please? This doesn't appear to be related to the problem of being required to forget how old you if you are immortal in a physical human sense. Cheers Saibal Mitra wrote: According to the

Re: Conventional QTI = False

2001-09-10 Thread Saibal Mitra
I just argue that to compute the probability distribution for your next experience, given your previous ones, you must also consider continuations were you suffer memory loss. QTI fails to do so and it is precisely this that leads to the the prediction that you should find yourself being

Re: Conventional QTI = False

2001-09-10 Thread Saibal Mitra
QTI, as formulated by some on this list (I call this conventional QTI), is supposed to imply that you should experience becoming arbitrarily old with probability one. It is this prediction that I am attacking. I have no problems with the fact that according to quantum mechanics there is a finite

Re: Conventional QTI = False

2001-09-10 Thread Russell Standish
As I said, this is a completely new interpretation of QTI, one never stated before. QTI does _not_ assume that memory is conserved. The prediction that one may end up being so old as to not know how old you are is based on the assumption that you total memory capacity remains constant - it need

Re: Conventional QTI = False

2001-09-09 Thread hal
Saibal writes: According to the conventional QTI, not only do you live forever, you can also never forget anything. I don't believe this because I know for a fact that I have forgotten quite a lot of things that have happened a long time ago. Right, but to make the same argument against QTI

RE: Conventional QTI = False

2001-09-09 Thread Charles Goodwin
-Original Message- From: Saibal Mitra [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] In the case of a person suffering from a terminal disease, it is much more likely that he will survive in a branch where he was not diagnosed with the disease, than in a branch where the disease is magically cured.

Re: Conventional QTI = False

2001-09-09 Thread Saibal Mitra
Hal Finney wrote: Saibal writes: According to the conventional QTI, not only do you live forever, you can also never forget anything. I don't believe this because I know for a fact that I have forgotten quite a lot of things that have happened a long time ago. Right, but to make the