Re: COMP refutation paper - finally out

2011-08-25 Thread Bruno Marchal


On 24 Aug 2011, at 21:34, meekerdb wrote:


On 8/24/2011 11:57 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote:



Nu = ((ZUY)^2 + U)^2 + Y

ELG^2 + Al = (B - XY)Q^2

Qu = B^(5^60)

La + Qu^4 = 1 + LaB^5

Th +  2Z = B^5

L = U + TTh

E = Y + MTh

N = Q^16

R = [G + EQ^3 + LQ^5 + (2(E - ZLa)(1 + XB^5 + G)^4 + LaB^5 + +  
LaB^5Q^4)Q^4](N^2 -N)

 + [Q^3 -BL + L + ThLaQ^3 + (B^5 - 2)Q^5] (N^2 - 1)

P = 2W(S^2)(R^2)N^2

(P^2)K^2 - K^2 + 1 = Ta^2

4(c - KSN^2)^2 + Et = K^2

K = R + 1 + HP - H

A = (WN^2 + 1)RSN^2

C = 2R + 1 Ph

D = BW + CA -2C + 4AGa -5Ga

D^2 = (A^2 - 1)C^2 + 1

F^2 = (A^2 - 1)(I^2)C^4 + 1

(D + OF)^2 = ((A + F^2(D^2 - A^2))^2 - 1)(2R + 1 + JC)^2 + 1


Thanks to Jones, Matiyasevitch. Some number Nu verifying that  
system of diophantine equations (the variables are integers) are  
Löbian stories, on which the machine's first person indeterminacy  
will be distributed.
We don't even need to go farer than the polynomial equations to  
describe the ROE.


I'm reminded of the apocryphal story of Euler being asked by  
Catherine the Great to counter Diederot who was trying to convert  
the Russian court to atheism.  Euler wrote e^(i*pi) + 1 = 0  
therefore God exists.


Well, it looks like, but you should quote the dialog: here I was asked  
*explicitly* to use only addition and multiplication. So I did. What I  
give was a *specific* universal system written using only addition and  
multiplication. The difference with, say, this:


0 ≠ s(x)
s(x) = s(y) - x = y
x+0 = x
x+s(y) = s(x+y)
x*0=0
x*s(y)=(x*y)+x

is that here we usee more symbols and, furthermore, assume classical  
logic. The purpose was illustrative only.


Note that Benjayk could have asked me a universal number. We have that  
X belongs to W_Nu (with W_i = domain of the phi_i) if and only if X  
and Nu satisfy the the polynomial equation above. So a universal Nu  
is a number such that W_Nu which is a Sigma_1 complete set. That  
exists, but it would be very tedious to isolate it.


Bruno

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Re: Interesting paper on consciousness, computation and MWI

2011-08-25 Thread Bruno Marchal

Hi David,

It looks not so bad :)
At first sight it is based on the ASSA (absolute self-samplings, like  
in the doomsday argument; may be Russell can comment on this). He  
seems naïve on the identity thesis, but that could be a reduction ad  
absurdum. The use of classical chaos is interesting, but not  
completely convincing, I might think on it. Will take a deeper look  
later. Thanks,


Bruno


On 25 Aug 2011, at 00:12, David Nyman wrote:

This paper presents some intriguing ideas on consciousness,  
computation and the MWI, including an argument against the  
possibility of consciousness supervening on any single deterministic  
computer program (Bruno might find this interesting).  Any comments  
on its cogency?


http://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0208038

David

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Re: consciousness

2011-08-25 Thread Alberto G.Corona

On Jul 5, 1:07 pm, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote:
 On 05 Jul 2011, at 11:42, Alberto G.Corona wrote:
.

 Are you sure you don't confuse consciousness and conscience. I think  
 that solitary primitive animals felt pain, and are thus consciouss  
 (although not necessarily self-conscious).

Hi again

Right

Consicence may be a less sophisticated version of self-consciousness..
I think honestly that all attemps of explaining conscience in terms of
a certain degree of complexity or as a certain property of neurons or
tissues goes the wrong path. Broadly speaking, this is like a medieval
scientist trying to explain  a video game console in terms of the
complexity and colourfulness of the printed circuits. These views
ignores the work of the hardware designer that creates the machine and
the programmer that make the algorithms.

In living beings the work of the hardware designer and the programmer
are done by a guy called Natural Selection. and this guy builds things
for a purpose: Survival. What is conscience for? A self preserving
being  with a central nervous system (an animal) must stablish a clear
distinction between its body and the environment in order to preserve
itself.  If he do not know the status of each of its parts in relation
to the environment, he can not determine the priorities for self
preservation: does he must avoid a predator? does he must eat
something? etc. The effect of the activity set of all these central
nervous systems is the conscience in the most basic manifestation.

No degree of complexity or neuronal-like machinery will manifest
conscience without the proper  algorithms (and the sensors-actuators
too). As Theodosius Dobzhansky said: Nothing in Biology (and i
suspect, nothing in anything) Makes Sense Except in the Light of
Evolution.

Honestly:
  Alberto.

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Re: consciousness

2011-08-25 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Aug 25, 6:12 am, Alberto G.Corona agocor...@gmail.com wrote:
 On Jul 5, 1:07 pm, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 05 Jul 2011, 
 at 11:42, Alberto G.Corona wrote:
 .

  Are you sure you don't confuse consciousness and conscience. I think  
  that solitary primitive animals felt pain, and are thus consciouss  
  (although not necessarily self-conscious).

 Hi again

 Right

 Consicence may be a less sophisticated version of self-consciousness..
 I think honestly that all attemps of explaining conscience in terms of
 a certain degree of complexity or as a certain property of neurons or
 tissues goes the wrong path. Broadly speaking, this is like a medieval
 scientist trying to explain  a video game console in terms of the
 complexity and colourfulness of the printed circuits. These views
 ignores the work of the hardware designer that creates the machine and
 the programmer that make the algorithms.

 In living beings the work of the hardware designer and the programmer
 are done by a guy called Natural Selection. and this guy builds things
 for a purpose: Survival. What is conscience for? A self preserving
 being  with a central nervous system (an animal) must stablish a clear
 distinction between its body and the environment in order to preserve
 itself.  If he do not know the status of each of its parts in relation
 to the environment, he can not determine the priorities for self
 preservation: does he must avoid a predator? does he must eat
 something? etc. The effect of the activity set of all these central
 nervous systems is the conscience in the most basic manifestation.

 No degree of complexity or neuronal-like machinery will manifest
 conscience without the proper  algorithms (and the sensors-actuators
 too). As Theodosius Dobzhansky said: Nothing in Biology (and i
 suspect, nothing in anything) Makes Sense Except in the Light of
 Evolution.

 Honestly:
   Alberto.

I think even evolution is only one half of the story, or the story
seen from only one side. Everything that conscience could provide in
terms of survival could be just as easily provided unconsciously.
There would be no need for the video game to have a graphic interface
and controller if you already have software that runs directly on the
hardware. I agree completely that complexity is the wrong direction to
go in, but in addition to the teleonomy of evolution, we routinely
participate teleologically in/as/through the universe.

Even if there were some evolutionary purpose served by feeling like we
are participating and making choices when we aren't, and for the
elaborately rich cornucopia of sensation and imagination we have
instant access to, evolution itself has no way to conjure 'experience'
out of inert material phenomena. It would be much more likely for
evolution to develop something like voluntary time travel or physical
omnipotence as a survival strategy then something like feeling which
totally defies conception in conventional physical terms.

Craig

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Re: COMP refutation paper - finally out

2011-08-25 Thread benjayk


Bruno Marchal wrote:
 
 Aren't you restricting your notion of
 what is explainable of what your own theory labels explainable with  
 its own
 assumptions?
 
 Yes, but this is due to its TOE aspect: it explains what explanation  
 are, and what we can hope to be 100% explainable, and what we will  
 never be explained (like the numbers).
It seems to me what it does is assuming what is explained and then explain
that this is so, while not making explicit that it is assumes (see below).
In effect, I believe it shows that our efforts to find fundamental
explantions are bound to fail, because explanations do not apply to the
fundamental thing. Explanations are just relative pointers from one obvious
thing to another.


Bruno Marchal wrote:
 


 Bruno Marchal wrote:

 You have to study to understand by yourself that it explain mind and
 matter from addition and multiplication, and that the explanation is
 the unique one maintainable once we say yes to the doctor. The
 explanation of matter is enough detailed so that we can test the comp
 theory with observation.
 If this were true, show me a document just consisting of addition and
 multplication that tells ANYTHING about mind and matter or even  
 anything
 beyond numbers and addition and multiplication without your  
 explanation.
 As long as you can't provide this it seems to me you ask me to study
 something that doesn't exist.
 
 Nu = ((ZUY)^2 + U)^2 + Y
 
 ELG^2 + Al = (B - XY)Q^2
 
 Qu = B^(5^60)
 
 La + Qu^4 = 1 + LaB^5
 
 Th +  2Z = B^5
 
 L = U + TTh
 
 E = Y + MTh
 
 N = Q^16
 
 R = [G + EQ^3 + LQ^5 + (2(E - ZLa)(1 + XB^5 + G)^4 + LaB^5 + +  
 LaB^5Q^4)Q^4](N^2 -N)
   + [Q^3 -BL + L + ThLaQ^3 + (B^5 - 2)Q^5] (N^2 - 1)
 
 P = 2W(S^2)(R^2)N^2
 
 (P^2)K^2 - K^2 + 1 = Ta^2
 
 4(c - KSN^2)^2 + Et = K^2
 
 K = R + 1 + HP - H
 
 A = (WN^2 + 1)RSN^2
 
 C = 2R + 1 Ph
 
 D = BW + CA -2C + 4AGa -5Ga
 
 D^2 = (A^2 - 1)C^2 + 1
 
 F^2 = (A^2 - 1)(I^2)C^4 + 1
 
 (D + OF)^2 = ((A + F^2(D^2 - A^2))^2 - 1)(2R + 1 + JC)^2 + 1
 
 
 Thanks to Jones, Matiyasevitch. Some number Nu verifying that system  
 of diophantine equations (the variables are integers) are Löbian  
 stories, on which the machine's first person indeterminacy will be  
 distributed.
 We don't even need to go farer than the polynomial equations to  
 describe the ROE.
 
 What you ask me is done in good textbook on Mathematical logic.
You used more than numbers in this example, namely variables. But even then,
I am not convinced this formulas make sense as being löbian stories
without an explanation. Surely, I can't prove that.


Bruno Marchal wrote:
 


 Bruno Marchal wrote:



 Sure. It is main point of the comp theory, and of its TOE, it
 justifies the unavoidability of faith in science. Even in the non
 applied science, but far more in the applied science. It does not
 need
 to be blind faith, though.
 This confuses me. So we seem to agree completely on this point. Yet
 you
 disagreed with my statement that intuition is needed at a
 fundamental level.

 We don't need it at the *primitive level* in the TOE. Of course we
 need it at the meta-level.
 You assume that by not mentioning it in the TOE the TOE somehow  
 independent
 of it. Why is it not possible that we simply failed to mention in,  
 yet still
 use it?
 
 It is up to you to show where it is used.
Arithmetics depends on truth/sense. If there is no truth/sense, no
arithmetical statment can make sense. We have no reason at all to believe
sense is restricted to arithmetics, thus with postulating that there is
truth we can use everything.


Bruno Marchal wrote:
 
 Actually it depends on what you mean with universe. If you define  
 universe
 as everything that is, not what we commonly call our universe in  
 physics
 (that works according to QM and GR). If you think of the universe as  
 all
 that is, I would indeed say that it makes not much sense to write on  
 its
 origin, as it would have to be its own origin, as there is nothing  
 outside
 it.
 
 With comp, it is absolutely undecidable if the Universe is different  
 from N, and with Occam, it is enough.
No. We need the sense in N, which is beyond N. Without sense, N is
non-sensical. It is up to you to prove that sense is only the sense in N.
Everbody assumes it is more than that. And if you say that we need only the
sense in natural numbers, show that the sense in natural numbers makes sense
without sense in general, or can somehow by seperated our from sense in
general.


Bruno Marchal wrote:
 
 Why do I say this? Because truth apart from
 self-knowledge can make no sense to me.
 
 With you = God, OK.
 
 But that kind of knowledge explains nothing. (Remember that the goal  
 is in finding a conceptual understanding of mind and matter, or the  
 closer we can get).
 
 With you = man, I am not OK.
Indeed that kind of knowledge explains nothing. Maybe there is nothing to
explain on a fundamental level.


Bruno Marchal wrote:
 
 


 Bruno Marchal wrote:


 But it is all we can 

Re: consciousness

2011-08-25 Thread meekerdb

On 8/25/2011 3:12 AM, Alberto G.Corona wrote:

On Jul 5, 1:07 pm, Bruno Marchalmarc...@ulb.ac.be  wrote:
   

On 05 Jul 2011, at 11:42, Alberto G.Corona wrote:
.

Are you sure you don't confuse consciousness and conscience. I think  
that solitary primitive animals felt pain, and are thus consciouss  
(although not necessarily self-conscious).


 

Hi again

Right

Consicence may be a less sophisticated version of self-consciousness..
I think honestly that all attemps of explaining conscience in terms of
a certain degree of complexity or as a certain property of neurons or
tissues goes the wrong path. Broadly speaking, this is like a medieval
scientist trying to explain  a video game console in terms of the
complexity and colourfulness of the printed circuits. These views
ignores the work of the hardware designer that creates the machine and
the programmer that make the algorithms.

In living beings the work of the hardware designer and the programmer
are done by a guy called Natural Selection. and this guy builds things
for a purpose: Survival.


Or more accurately: Reproduction.  But evolution must work with what it 
has.  That was Julian Jaynes insight into why we have an inner narrative 
instead of some other kind of consciousness.  Our symbolic cogitation is 
built on top of our language, which in turn is built on top of social 
relations.


Brent


What is conscience for? A self preserving
being  with a central nervous system (an animal) must stablish a clear
distinction between its body and the environment in order to preserve
itself.  If he do not know the status of each of its parts in relation
to the environment, he can not determine the priorities for self
preservation: does he must avoid a predator? does he must eat
something? etc. The effect of the activity set of all these central
nervous systems is the conscience in the most basic manifestation.

No degree of complexity or neuronal-like machinery will manifest
conscience without the proper  algorithms (and the sensors-actuators
too). As Theodosius Dobzhansky said: Nothing in Biology (and i
suspect, nothing in anything) Makes Sense Except in the Light of
Evolution.

Honestly:
   Alberto.

   


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Re: consciousness

2011-08-25 Thread Bruno Marchal


On 25 Aug 2011, at 12:12, Alberto G.Corona wrote:



On Jul 5, 1:07 pm, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote:

On 05 Jul 2011, at 11:42, Alberto G.Corona wrote:
.

Are you sure you don't confuse consciousness and conscience. I think
that solitary primitive animals felt pain, and are thus consciouss
(although not necessarily self-conscious).


Hi again

Right

Consicence may be a less sophisticated version of self-consciousness..
I think honestly that all attemps of explaining conscience in terms of
a certain degree of complexity or as a certain property of neurons or
tissues goes the wrong path.


I agree. Those are implementation. Conscience and consciousness are  
attribute of first person, soul; etc.





Broadly speaking, this is like a medieval
scientist trying to explain  a video game console in terms of the
complexity and colourfulness of the printed circuits. These views
ignores the work of the hardware designer that creates the machine and
the programmer that make the algorithms.


But little program with simple instruction (like help yourself) can go  
very far if you give them the time.
We can already have conversations with simple introspective machine,  
albeit abstract and mathematical.






In living beings the work of the hardware designer and the programmer
are done by a guy called Natural Selection. and this guy builds things
for a purpose: Survival. What is conscience for? A self preserving
being  with a central nervous system (an animal) must stablish a clear
distinction between its body and the environment in order to preserve
itself.  If he do not know the status of each of its parts in relation
to the environment, he can not determine the priorities for self
preservation: does he must avoid a predator? does he must eat
something? etc. The effect of the activity set of all these central
nervous systems is the conscience in the most basic manifestation.


OK. The effect. Not the activity itself, but what the activity can  
represent.

Consciousness is belief in a reality.
The role of self-consciousness is self-acceleration with respect to  
that probable and possible reality.






No degree of complexity or neuronal-like machinery will manifest
conscience without the proper  algorithms (and the sensors-actuators
too). As Theodosius Dobzhansky said: Nothing in Biology (and i
suspect, nothing in anything) Makes Sense Except in the Light of
Evolution.




Evolution itself is a speeding up process. It build layers and layers  
of universal level, a process mimicked by life, and then by thought,  
and then by languages, and then (now) by machines.


Brain, computer, genome, universal machine, programming languages,  
what I call the universal numbers or machines (UMs) are basically  
dynamical mirror, and anticipator, and it allows and enlarge the  
spectrum of further explorations, it augment the relative degrees of  
freedom.


Evolution is driven by simple ideas, not unlike the Mandelbrot set. It  
is not just mutation and selection, it is also meta-level evolution  
and efficacious self-perturbation, and who knows, some reflexive  
layers. A four dimensional view of humanity illustrates humanity and  
life is a fractal. They are known to be locally rather complex, but  
generated by powerful little idea (like try to eat, to f. and avoid to  
be eaten).


The difference between natural and artificial is artificial. And thus  
natural when selves develop. Machines, from the stick of wood to the  
computers are natural extension of our life and thought and the  
evolution of thought.


The universal machine is a terrible child. It is the little God. The  
one you can give it a name, and then he got the ten thousand names  
(Java, c++, prolog, algol, cobol, LISP, game of life, modular functor  
of type 5, topological computer, ..., your brain, your cells, and many  
parts of the physical universe, apparently).


If you give to those UMs, the ability of mathematical induction, they  
seem to me as clever as you and me. They are just highly handicapped  
and disconnected relatively to our probable histories. But they  
universal incarnation is 50 years old, ours is billion of years old,  
yet, they develop very quickly. Computer science is mostly used to  
control them, not to let them controlling themselves, except timidly  
in AI research.


Complexity is not the answer to deep questions. It is the consequence  
of simple answer to deep questions.


Anyway, the comp consequences are independent of the substitution  
level chose. Physics has to be justified.


Bruno


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Re: COMP refutation paper - finally out

2011-08-25 Thread Bruno Marchal


On 25 Aug 2011, at 14:03, benjayk wrote:




Bruno Marchal wrote:



Aren't you restricting your notion of
what is explainable of what your own theory labels explainable with
its own
assumptions?


Yes, but this is due to its TOE aspect: it explains what  
explanation

are, and what we can hope to be 100% explainable, and what we will
never be explained (like the numbers).
It seems to me what it does is assuming what is explained and then  
explain
that this is so, while not making explicit that it is assumes (see  
below).

In effect, I believe it shows that our efforts to find fundamental
explantions are bound to fail, because explanations do not apply to  
the
fundamental thing. Explanations are just relative pointers from one  
obvious

thing to another.


This might explain why you don't study the argument. If you believe at  
the start we cannot do it, I understand the lack of motivation for the  
hard work.


Have you understood the UD Argument: that IF we can survive with a  
digital brain, then physics is a branch of computer science or number  
theory.


I think that your misunderstanding of the AUDA TOE comes from not  
having seen this point.







Bruno Marchal wrote:





Bruno Marchal wrote:


You have to study to understand by yourself that it explain mind  
and
matter from addition and multiplication, and that the explanation  
is

the unique one maintainable once we say yes to the doctor. The
explanation of matter is enough detailed so that we can test the  
comp

theory with observation.
If this were true, show me a document just consisting of addition  
and

multplication that tells ANYTHING about mind and matter or even
anything
beyond numbers and addition and multiplication without your
explanation.
As long as you can't provide this it seems to me you ask me to study
something that doesn't exist.


Nu = ((ZUY)^2 + U)^2 + Y

ELG^2 + Al = (B - XY)Q^2

Qu = B^(5^60)

La + Qu^4 = 1 + LaB^5

Th +  2Z = B^5

L = U + TTh

E = Y + MTh

N = Q^16

R = [G + EQ^3 + LQ^5 + (2(E - ZLa)(1 + XB^5 + G)^4 + LaB^5 + +
LaB^5Q^4)Q^4](N^2 -N)
 + [Q^3 -BL + L + ThLaQ^3 + (B^5 - 2)Q^5] (N^2 - 1)

P = 2W(S^2)(R^2)N^2

(P^2)K^2 - K^2 + 1 = Ta^2

4(c - KSN^2)^2 + Et = K^2

K = R + 1 + HP - H

A = (WN^2 + 1)RSN^2

C = 2R + 1 Ph

D = BW + CA -2C + 4AGa -5Ga

D^2 = (A^2 - 1)C^2 + 1

F^2 = (A^2 - 1)(I^2)C^4 + 1

(D + OF)^2 = ((A + F^2(D^2 - A^2))^2 - 1)(2R + 1 + JC)^2 + 1


Thanks to Jones, Matiyasevitch. Some number Nu verifying that system
of diophantine equations (the variables are integers) are Löbian
stories, on which the machine's first person indeterminacy will be
distributed.
We don't even need to go farer than the polynomial equations to
describe the ROE.

What you ask me is done in good textbook on Mathematical logic.

You used more than numbers in this example, namely variables.


Statements on numbers can use variable. If you want only numbers,  
translate those equation into one number, by Gödel's technic. But that  
would lead to a cumbersome gigantic expression.






But even then,
I am not convinced this formulas make sense as being löbian stories
without an explanation. Surely, I can't prove that.


This is like saying that a brain cannot make sense without another  
brain making sense of it.
The point is technical: numbers + addition and multiplication does  
emulate the computational histories.


You cannot use a personal feeling to doubt a technical result.  
Probably you are putting too much sense where a study would convince  
you that there is no such sense.


I am not doing a philosophical point: I assume comp (which assumes  
both consciousness and physical reality), and I prove from those  
assumption that the TOE is arithmetic, with all the technical details  
to extract both quanta and qualia from it.


Of course, to understand the theory you need a brain, and you need  
sense, but once you understand the theory you can understand where you  
brain and where your sense comes from.






Bruno Marchal wrote:





Bruno Marchal wrote:






Sure. It is main point of the comp theory, and of its TOE, it
justifies the unavoidability of faith in science. Even in the non
applied science, but far more in the applied science. It does not
need
to be blind faith, though.
This confuses me. So we seem to agree completely on this point.  
Yet

you
disagreed with my statement that intuition is needed at a
fundamental level.


We don't need it at the *primitive level* in the TOE. Of course we
need it at the meta-level.

You assume that by not mentioning it in the TOE the TOE somehow
independent
of it. Why is it not possible that we simply failed to mention in,
yet still
use it?


It is up to you to show where it is used.

Arithmetics depends on truth/sense.


This is too much ambiguous. It introduces philosophy at a level where  
we cannot use it.







If there is no truth/sense, no
arithmetical statment can make sense. We have no reason at all to  
believe
sense is restricted to 

Re: Interesting paper on consciousness, computation and MWI

2011-08-25 Thread Stephen P. King

Hi,

I have found what I believe is a flaw in the reasoning in the paper.

On pages 5-6 we find:

 In Section 5, I attempt to apply this reasoning to the case of an 
infinite lifetime. I find that, on the one hand, in discovering his 
current moment out of an infinite ensemble of moments, the observer 
should gain an infinite amount of information. But, on the other hand, I 
argue that such a state of affairs is not logically possible. Thus I 
conclude that an infinite conscious lifetime is not possible in principle.


I disagree with this conclusion because the ability to 'discover' 
ones current moment out of an infinite ensemble of moments would require 
the ability to access the computational resources needed to run the 
computation of the search algorithm on the infinite ensemble. In this 
case it is required that an infinite quantity of resources be available 
in a finite or infinitesimal duration. The author does mention some 
aspects of the problem in computational terms but the issue of resources 
does not seem to have been noticed. I find it strange that computations 
can be treated as if they are not subject to the laws of physics that 
included prohibitions on perpetual motion machines. There is no such 
thing as a free computation. The content of our Observer moments is 
finite due to computational resource limitations not because of some 
universal prior measure.


Onward!

Stephen



On 8/25/2011 5:32 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote:

Hi David,

It looks not so bad :)
At first sight it is based on the ASSA (absolute self-samplings, like 
in the doomsday argument; may be Russell can comment on this). He 
seems naïve on the identity thesis, but that could be a reduction ad 
absurdum. The use of classical chaos is interesting, but not 
completely convincing, I might think on it. Will take a deeper look 
later. Thanks,


Bruno


On 25 Aug 2011, at 00:12, David Nyman wrote:

This paper presents some intriguing ideas on consciousness, 
computation and the MWI, including an argument against the 
possibility of consciousness supervening on any single deterministic 
computer program (Bruno might find this interesting).  Any comments 
on its cogency?


http://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0208038

David

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