Re: Movie Graph Argument: A Refutation

2012-01-04 Thread Evgenii Rudnyi
On 03.01.2012 21:42 meekerdb said the following: On 1/3/2012 12:24 PM, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote: On 02.01.2012 21:32 meekerdb said the following: On 1/2/2012 12:24 PM, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote: On 02.01.2012 07:01 meekerdb said the following: ... Everett's MWI is based on QM which does assume a

Re: Movie Graph Argument: A Refutation

2012-01-04 Thread meekerdb
On 1/4/2012 10:55 AM, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote: On 03.01.2012 21:42 meekerdb said the following: On 1/3/2012 12:24 PM, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote: On 02.01.2012 21:32 meekerdb said the following: On 1/2/2012 12:24 PM, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote: On 02.01.2012 07:01 meekerdb said the following: ...

Re: Movie Graph Argument: A Refutation

2012-01-04 Thread Stephen P. King
On 1/4/2012 3:03 PM, meekerdb wrote: In the MW interpretation there is no collapse, but there is a split into (almost) orthogonal worlds or each person splits into orthogonal minds. These are just projections onto different quasi-classical subspaces corresponding to different measurement

Re: An analogy for Qualia

2012-01-04 Thread John Clark
On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 9:53 PM, Craig Weinberg whatsons...@gmail.comwrote: Sure, our belief in simulations can make them seem quite realistic to us. That doesn't make them real though. And so simulators join a long long long list of things that you say are not real. If X contradicts your

Re: An analogy for Qualia

2012-01-04 Thread meekerdb
On 1/4/2012 9:29 PM, John Clark wrote: It's [the brain] nothing like a computer which drops the contents of RAM as soon as electricity is cut off As anyone who has ever used a flash drive could tell you not all RAM acts that way. Anyone who's hit their head really hard can tell