Re: Do Observer Moments form a Vecor Space?

On 29/08/2017 3:17 pm, Russell Standish wrote: I attach a brief PDF of what I have so far. It shows how observer moments, modelled as sets of bitstrings classified by looking at a finite number of bits naturally map to vectors in a complex vector space. There are some lemmas, proofs and

More on topological quantum computing

In the August 23 2017 issue of the journal Nature researchers report they have managed to braid non-Abelian anyons (also called Majorana sudo-particles) in a hashtag # arrangement of wires. These braids can encode a Qbit of quantum information and they can be manipulated. These braids are very

Re: A profound lack of profundity (and soon "the starting point")

On Wed, Aug 30, 2017 Terren Suydam wrote: > ​> >>> ​>> ​ >>> ​ >>> All that's necessary is to imagine or simulate the first person >>> perspective of the one who gets duplicated. >>> >> >> ​ >> ​>> ​ >> Which ​ONE >> >> ​"*THE​* >> first person perspective >> ​" is ​

Re: A profound lack of profundity (and soon "the starting point")

On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 9:06 PM, John Clark wrote: > > >> ​> ​ >> All that's necessary is to imagine or simulate the first person >> perspective of the one who gets duplicated. >> > > ​Which ​ONE > > ​"*THE​* > first person perspective > ​" is ​ > Terren Suydam > ​

Re: A profound lack of profundity (and soon "the starting point")

On Wed, Aug 30, 2017 at 5:26 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: ​>> ​ >>> The ​thought experiment >>> ​asks the question ​"what one and only one city will YOU see after YOU >>> have been duplicated and become two?", so of course the meaning of the >>> personal pronoun in the question is

Re: A profound lack of profundity (and soon "the starting point")

On 30 Aug 2017, at 03:06, John Clark wrote: On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 , Terren Suydam wrote: your point, over and over again, is about the limitations of pronouns in the presence of a duplicating machine. ​Yes.​ ​> ​True enough, but irrelevant. The ​thought