Adam and Eve’s Anthropic Superpowers

Hi everyone, I found an interesting blog post that attempts to refute the Doomsday Argument. It suggests that different worlds ought to be weighted by the number of people in them, so that you should be more likely to find yourself in a world where there will be many humans, as opposed to just

Re: Measuring a system in a superposition of states vs in a mixed state.

On Friday, November 23, 2018 at 5:29:05 PM UTC, John Clark wrote: > > > agrays...@gmail.com > > *>** So Feynman adds this additional hypothesis to QM. Is this kosher?* > > > It had better be kosher because it works! > > *> ** introducing an infinity of universes seems extraneous and confusing

Re: Towards Conscious AI Systems (a symposium at the AAAI Stanford Spring Symposium 2019)

On Friday, November 23, 2018 at 11:40:23 AM UTC-6, John Clark wrote: > > > > On Fri, Nov 23, 2018 at 12:22 PM Philip Thrift > wrote: > > >> > True intelligence is *experiential intelligence*. >> > > What sort of intelligence do your fellow human beings have? How does true > intelligence

Re: Towards Conscious AI Systems (a symposium at the AAAI Stanford Spring Symposium 2019)

On Fri, Nov 23, 2018 at 12:22 PM Philip Thrift wrote: > > True intelligence is *experiential intelligence*. > What sort of intelligence do your fellow human beings have? How does true intelligence behave differently than untrue intelligence? If untrue intelligence can outsmart true

Measuring a system in a superposition of states vs in a mixed state.

agrayson2...@gmail.com *>** So Feynman adds this additional hypothesis to QM. Is this kosher?* It had better be kosher because it works! *> ** introducing an infinity of universes seems extraneous and confusing > for a solution to this problem. AG* Far from being extraneous Feynman's method

Re: Towards Conscious AI Systems (a symposium at the AAAI Stanford Spring Symposium 2019)

On Friday, November 23, 2018 at 6:22:39 AM UTC-6, John Clark wrote: > > > On Fri, Nov 23, 2018 at 2:38 AM Philip Thrift > wrote: > > *> An alternative is that consciousness (or experientiality - in the >> philosophers' jargon) is intrinsic (more jargon) to matter. A change in >> matter would

Re: Towards Conscious AI Systems (a symposium at the AAAI Stanford Spring Symposium 2019)

> On 22 Nov 2018, at 21:02, John Clark wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 21, 2018 at 4:44 AM Bruno Marchal > wrote: > > >In logic, a model is a reality. > > If so then "reality" is a very silly thing and logicians are very silly > people. It is so, as again you would see if

Re: Measuring a system in a superposition of states vs in a mixed state

On Friday, November 23, 2018 at 11:29:14 AM UTC, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > > On 21 Nov 2018, at 18:03, agrays...@gmail.com wrote: > > > > On Monday, November 19, 2018 at 3:52:37 PM UTC, Bruno Marchal wrote: >> >> >> On 18 Nov 2018, at 14:00, agrays...@gmail.com wrote: >> >> >> >> On Sunday,

Re: Towards Conscious AI Systems (a symposium at the AAAI Stanford Spring Symposium 2019)

On Fri, Nov 23, 2018 at 2:38 AM Philip Thrift wrote: *> An alternative is that consciousness (or experientiality - in the > philosophers' jargon) is intrinsic (more jargon) to matter. A change in > matter would indeed change consciousness.* > Because a change in matter changes a computation and

Re: Measuring a system in a superposition of states vs in a mixed state

> On 21 Nov 2018, at 18:03, agrayson2...@gmail.com wrote: > > > > On Monday, November 19, 2018 at 3:52:37 PM UTC, Bruno Marchal wrote: > >> On 18 Nov 2018, at 14:00, agrays...@gmail.com wrote: >> >> >> >> On Sunday, November 18, 2018 at 12:19:20 PM UTC, Bruno Marchal wrote: >> >>> On 16