Re: QTI, Cul de sacs and differentiation

2011-11-01 Thread Jason Resch
On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 5:40 PM, Quentin Anciaux wrote: > > > 2011/11/1 benjayk > >> >> >> Quentin Anciaux-2 wrote: >> > >> > 2011/10/30 benjayk >> > >> >> >> >> >> >> Quentin Anciaux-2 wrote: >> >> > >> >> > 2011/10/30 benjayk >> >> > >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> Nick Prince-2 wrote: >> >> >> >

Re: QTI, Cul de sacs and differentiation

2011-11-01 Thread meekerdb
On 11/1/2011 3:40 PM, Quentin Anciaux wrote: What do you mean by "consciousness" ? I don't care about "eternal" not me... it's the *same* thing as death. When talking about dying, what's important is the person who die, if something is left who doesn't know that it was that person... what does i

Re: QTI, Cul de sacs and differentiation

2011-11-01 Thread meekerdb
On 11/1/2011 2:07 PM, Russell Standish wrote: On Tue, Nov 01, 2011 at 01:07:31PM -0700, Nick Prince wrote: This is where I am coming from: I accept decoherence as the mechanism for suppressing interference between universes and that this happens very quickly (no time for us to notice). So assu

Re: QTI, Cul de sacs and differentiation

2011-11-01 Thread meekerdb
On 11/1/2011 1:07 PM, Nick Prince wrote: [BM] I don't think I understand it any better than you do. But ISTM we need a quantum theory of consciousness in order to write eqns like (3) above. In the standard theory it implies that there is some experience of both system states at the same time.

Re: QTI, Cul de sacs and differentiation

2011-11-01 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2011/11/1 benjayk > > > Quentin Anciaux-2 wrote: > > > > 2011/10/30 benjayk > > > >> > >> > >> Quentin Anciaux-2 wrote: > >> > > >> > 2011/10/30 benjayk > >> > > >> >> > >> >> > >> >> Nick Prince-2 wrote: > >> >> > > >> >> > > >> >> > This is similar to my speculations in an earlier topic post

Re: 3p consequence of cul de sac?

2011-11-01 Thread Nick Prince
> Hi Nick, > >      OK, Cul de sac's are terminations of a first person point of view. > Unless we believe in disembodied minds then there is some kind of > physical system with some kind of wave function that is associated with > the 'body' of the observer. Here we are considering cats but that d

Re: QTI, Cul de sacs and differentiation

2011-11-01 Thread Russell Standish
On Tue, Nov 01, 2011 at 01:07:31PM -0700, Nick Prince wrote: > This is where I am coming from: > > I accept decoherence as the mechanism for suppressing interference > between universes and that this happens very quickly (no time for us > to notice). So assuming the everett interpretation, there

Re: QTI, Cul de sacs and differentiation

2011-11-01 Thread Nick Prince
[BM] > I don't think I understand it any better than you do.  But ISTM we need a > quantum theory > of consciousness in order to write eqns like (3) above. In the standard > theory it implies > that there is some experience of both system states at the same time.  A > change of basis > changes

Re: QTI, Cul de sacs and differentiation

2011-11-01 Thread benjayk
Quentin Anciaux-2 wrote: > > 2011/10/30 benjayk > >> >> >> Quentin Anciaux-2 wrote: >> > >> > 2011/10/30 benjayk >> > >> >> >> >> >> >> Nick Prince-2 wrote: >> >> > >> >> > >> >> > This is similar to my speculations in an earlier topic post >> >> > >> >> >> http://groups.google.com/group/ever

Re: QTI, Cul de sacs and differentiation

2011-11-01 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 31 Oct 2011, at 23:56, meekerdb wrote: On 10/31/2011 11:02 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: Why? Everett shows convincingly that, being a memory machine, when we measure a superposition state, we just entangle ourself with the superposition state, but this differentiate the consciousness/ memor