Re: Fwd: zombie wives - The relativistic point of view

1999-08-18 Thread Christopher Maloney
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > You all seem to assign to "measure" a soul-like quality as if measure had any > value, as if it is "good" to maximize measure, as if measure has an > objective, and absolute existence.. like the Ether. > > I believe that in fact, the probability of observing an eve

Re: zombie wives

1999-08-18 Thread Russell Standish
> > On 18 xxx -1, Marchal wrote: > > Jacques M. Mallah wrote: > > >> Russell Standish wrote: > > >> I still don't see what measure has to do with conciousness! > > > That is the problem. > > I don't see that either. > > The measure is defined on the set of computations and gives the > > relati

Re: zombie wives

1999-08-18 Thread Jacques M. Mallah
On 18 xxx -1, Marchal wrote: > Jacques M. Mallah wrote: > >> Russell Standish wrote: > >> I still don't see what measure has to do with conciousness! > > That is the problem. > I don't see that either. > The measure is defined on the set of computations and gives the > relative probability of

Re: zombie wives

1999-08-18 Thread Jacques M. Mallah
On Mon, 16 Aug 1999, Russell Standish wrote: [Jack wrote] > > What I am trying to do is to look at the consequences of the > > claims made by the quantum suicide camp. The claim is that consciousness > > 'flows into' possible continuations of oneself and is, in effect, > > conserved as long a