RE: Maudlin's argument

2006-10-13 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
Russell Standish writes: > If the same QM state is associated with different observer moments, > you must be talking about some non-functionalist approach to > consciousness. The QM state, by definition, contains all information > that can be extracted from observation. Functionalism explicitly

Re: To observe is to......

2006-10-13 Thread Colin Geoffrey Hales
[Colin Hales] No, it's better visualised as 'being a not-mirror' :-) Imagine you embedded a mirror in your head, but you were only interested in everything the mirror was not. That is, the image in the mirror is manipulating the space intimately adjacent to the reflecting surface. Keep the spac

Re: Maudlin's argument

2006-10-13 Thread Russell Standish
On Fri, Oct 13, 2006 at 07:03:18AM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Also see my reply to Russell below: > > > >Russell Standish > > > >The Multiverse is defined as the set of consistent histories described > >by the Schroedinger equation. I make the identification that a quantum > >state is

Re: The difference between a 'chair' concept and a 'mathematical concept' ;)

2006-10-13 Thread 1Z
David Nyman wrote: > On Oct 13, 1:52 am, "1Z" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > You know you can, of course. But what you are communicating is > > > information derived from your 'seeing a square' in order for others to > > > instantiate something analogous, as 1-person experiences of their own.

Re: Maudlin's argument

2006-10-13 Thread marc . geddes
Stathis Papaioannou wrote: > > Do you believe there is a difference between the experience of a being > living in a model block universe, such as having the observer moments > of its life running simultaneously on different machines or as separate > processes run in parallel on the one machine,