Re: are we in a simulation?

2003-06-13 Thread George Levy
HI Stephen Stephen Paul King wrote: Does computational complexity (such as NP-Completeness, etc.) and computational "power" requirements factor into the idea of simulated worlds? It may. Also important is the issue that Tegmark raised in the Scientific American article about the orderin

Re: Response to R.Hlywka's brain/mind comments

2003-06-13 Thread R Hlywka
Bretton wrote It's a dream for many transhumanists :-) and I reckon it will be possible to the extent that external observers can no longer tell the difference, even if the copied mind itself new it wasn't the original.[1] A more interesting question is: Can you reconstruct one? Assuming you had e

Re: Quantum Immortality

2003-06-13 Thread Bruno Marchal
At 10:14 12/06/03 -0400, Charles wrote: What is this thing called consciousness, anyway? It could be the unconscious, instinctive, automatic, abductive inference of some consistent sets of "neighborhood-histories". It is related to some high level description of ourselves relatively to what w