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> > > So you NEED something additional to explain the ongoing regularity.
> > > You need something like the Speed Prior, which greatly favors regular
> > > futures over others.
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> > I take issue
Charles Goodwin wrote:
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>> -Original Message-
>> From: Brent Meeker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>> Sent: Wednesday, 10 October 2001 2:23 a.m.
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>> But then why do you say that a duplicate of your brain processes in a
>> computer would not be conscious. You seem to be
>> discriminating be
I tried to understand the problem that doctors Schmidhuber
and Standish are discussing by describing it in the most
concrete terms I could, below. (I admit beforehand I couldn't
follow all the details and do not know all the papers and
theorems referred to, so this could be irrelevant.)
So
> From [EMAIL PROTECTED] :
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> > So you NEED something additional to explain the ongoing regularity.
> > You need something like the Speed Prior, which greatly favors regular
> > futures over others.
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> I take issue with this statement. In Occam's Razor I show ho
Brent Meeker wrote:
>OK, I understand - I think. But as I understand your ontology,
>everything is immaterial - even matter. So the question is, are there
>consciousness' that are not associated with material things.
Well, in a sense no "consciousness" are associated with, let us
say, substa
> > > From [EMAIL PROTECTED] :
> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> > > > So you NEED something additional to explain the ongoing regularity.
> > > > You need something like the Speed Prior, which greatly favors regular
> > > > futures over others.
> > >
> > > I take issue with this state
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> Huh? A PDF? You mean a probability density function? On a continuous set?
Probability Distribution Function. And PDF's are defined on all
measurable sets, not just continuous ones.
> No! I am talking about probability distributions on describable objects.
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Quick
reply as usual 'cos I'm at work! :-)
But
surely the level of substitution would be non-fundamental, i.e. above the level
of matter (Whatever that is or isn't) and hence would be a *simulation* of a
person? I don't understand how one survives through the substitution (or perhaps
I've
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