Peter Jones writes (quoting SP):
OK, but then you have the situation whereby a very complex, and to
our
mind disorganised, conscious
computer might be designed and built by aliens, then discovered by
us
after the aliens have become
extinct and their design blueprints, programming manuals
Le 16-sept.-06, à 10:10, Colin Geoffrey Hales a écrit :
5) Re a fatal test for the Turing machine? Give it exquisite novelty by
asking it to do science on an unknown area of the natural world. Proper
science. It will fail because it does not know there is an outside
world.
And you
Colin Geoffrey Hales wrote:
Q. What is it like to be a human? It is like being a mind. There is
information delivered into the mind by the action of brain material which
bestows on the human intrinsic knowledge about the natural world outside
the humanin the form of phenomenal
Stathis Papaioannou wrote:
This is the most immediate response of people to the QTI idea: even if it's
true,
what do I care if other versions of me survive in the multiverse if I'm going
to die?
According to QTI you are not going to die in any universe because there
are no dead ends in
David Nyman wrote:
Some of us may recall the tontine, invented in the 17th century by a
Neapolitan banker called Lorenzo de Tonti as an investment scheme, but
now illegal, in the US and UK at least. The only beneficiary is the
last survivor, who scoops the pool. A QTI tontine would presumably
Colin Geoffrey Hales wrote:
Colin Geoffrey Hales wrote:
Q. What is it like to be a human? It is like being a mind. There is
information delivered into the mind by the action of brain material
which
bestows on the human intrinsic knowledge about the natural world outside
the
Colin Geoffrey Hales wrote:
...
COLIN:
Hi a bunch of points...
1) Re paper.. it is undergoing review and growing..
The point of the paper is to squash the solipsism argument ...in
particular the specific flavour of it that deals with 'other minds' and as
it has (albeit tacitly)
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