RE: Belief Statements

2005-01-17 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
Hal Ruhl wrote on 17/1/05: Do you really mean that your "theory" would made you say no to a doctor presenting you an artificial brain (even with a very low substitution level description of yourself) ? First assume that choice is available to sub components of a world state. I would not accept be

RE: Belief Statements

2005-01-17 Thread Hal Ruhl
Hi Bruno: At 09:51 AM 1/17/2005, you wrote: Hello Hal, snip mine Now if one envisions the physical reality evolution of sub components of the world kernels in such a sequence the result would be the same. ? So I find I must also reject "..." "Comp: I (you) am (are) computable/Turing emulable

RE: Belief Statements

2005-01-17 Thread Bruno Marchal
Hello Hal, In my particular All/Nothing approach my world kernels are packets of information necessary and sufficient to describe a particular state of a universe. The dynamic of the approach provides physical reality to world kernels in sequences [worlds] in a manner that is inconsistent with

RE: Belief Statements

2005-01-17 Thread Bruno Marchal
At 01:32 16/01/05 +1100, Stathis Papaioannou wrote: On 15/1/05 Bruno Marchal wrote: Obviously! But it is so only because you dismiss the "failure induction problem". Also: third person identity is arguably an illusion. But I hardy doubt first person identity can ever be an illusion or that it c