Quantum suicide and immortality

2009-05-10 Thread ZeroSum
The Wiki article Quantum suicide and immortality (http:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_suicide_and_immortality) states: Also, the philosopher David Lewis, in How Many Lives Has Schrödinger's Cat?, remarked that in the vast majority of the worlds in which an immortal observer might find himself

Re: Quantum suicide and immortality

2009-05-10 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
2009/5/10 ZeroSum ing...@usa.net: David Lewis' statement cuts to the core of the nature of consciousness. If each conscious observer on planet Earth (and let's assume the laws of physics don't limit consciousness to humans but includes any sentient animal life form) exists in Many Worlds

Re: Consciousness is information?

2009-05-10 Thread Torgny Tholerus
Quentin Anciaux skrev: Hi, 2009/5/8 Torgny Tholerus tor...@dsv.su.se: I was an ultrafinitist before, but I have changed my mind. Now I accept that you can say that the natural numbers are unlimited. I only deny actual infinities. The set of all natural numbers are always finite, but

Re: 3-PoV from 1 PoV?

2009-05-10 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 08 May 2009, at 17:49, Stephen Paul King wrote: I came upon the idea after considering how is it that the notion of an objective reality when we know for a fact that all of our knowledge does not come from any kind of direct contact with an objective reality, at best it is

Re: Quantum suicide and immortality

2009-05-10 Thread Brent Meeker
ZeroSum wrote: The Wiki article Quantum suicide and immortality (http:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_suicide_and_immortality) states: Also, the philosopher David Lewis, in How Many Lives Has Schrödinger's Cat?, remarked that in the vast majority of the worlds in which an immortal

Re: Consciousness is information?

2009-05-10 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 08 May 2009, at 19:15, Torgny Tholerus wrote: Bruno Marchal skrev: On 07 May 2009, at 18:29, Torgny Tholerus wrote: Bruno Marchal skrev: you are human, all right? I look exactly as a human. When you look at me, you will not be able to know if I am a human or a zombie, because I