I have before stated my long-held opinions on this,
namely that it's best to regard one's duplicates
as self. As a corollary, the you that ends up
in one place is 100% you and so is the other.
Consider this alternative experiment: we reveal to
you that every minute of the last two years you have
I'll offer my thoughts on first-person indeterminacy. This is based
on Wei Dai's framework which I have called UD+ASSA. I am working on
some web pages to summarize the various conclusions I have drawn from
this framework. (Actually, here I am going to in effect use the SSA
rather than the
Tom Caylor writes:
Withoutreallygettingintoyourthoughtexperiment,Iwanttoaska question.Whatdoesitmeanto"experienceaminuteofcontinuous consciousness"?OK,wehaveabiologicalclockthatgivesusarough senseofrelativepassingoftime.ButIdon'tthinkyoumaintainthat
Le 19-juin-06, à 15:31, Russell Standish a écrit :
I'm not so sure. At heart, I suspect he is a computationalist, however
what he assumes in his papers is that the universe (that we see) is a
single
specific computation selected from the dovetailer algorithm. With COMP
(and
with
Le 20-juin-06, à 04:04, Norman Samish a écrit :
I've endured this thread long enough! Let's get back to something I can understand!
Why? you'll ask.
I'll reply, Because your audience is shrinking! I've plotted the Audience vs. Topic, and find that, in 12.63 months, there is a 91%
Bruno writes:
Hal,
It seems to me that you are introducing a notion of physical universe,=20
and then use it to reintroduce a notion of first person death, so that=20
you can bet you will be the one annihilated in Brussels.
I should first mention that I did not anticipate the conclusion
On Tue, Jun 20, 2006 at 09:35:12AM -0700, Hal Finney wrote:
The starting point was the framework I have described previously, which
can be stated very simply as that the measure of an information pattern
comes from the universal distribution of Kolmogorov. I then applied this
analysis to
I don't understand why you consider the measures of the programs that do the
simulations. The ''real'' measure should be derived from the algorithmic
complexity of the laws of physics that describe how the computers/brains
work. If you know for certain that a computation will be performed in this
Stathis Papaioannou wrote:
Tom Caylor writes:
Without really getting into your thought experiment, I want to ask a
question. What does it mean to experience a minute of continuous
consciousness? OK, we have a biological clock that gives us a rough
sense of relative passing of
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