Computer scientist's or. If you read it that way it's a yes or no question.
Misreading an exclusive or as an inclusive or is often used in CS/Math jokes.
He's also indicating that his model of personal identity allows branching, i.e.
you're both. If you think you will be the Prestige beforehand
It's a question to which the answer could be
yes, I would be the man in the box or the man in the prestige (believes
only one is the original, and the other is a copy that doesn't preserve the
original's consciousness)
or
yes, I will be the man in the box and the man in the prestige (believes
John Clark, you have often praised the movie The Prestige on this list.
I am curious to know, how did you interpret the line:
Would I be the man in the box or the prestige? (Spoken/Thought by the
magician Robert Angier, prior to duplicating himself to two locations: a
box filled with water
On Mon, May 4, 2015 at 10:48 AM, Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com wrote:
John Clark, you have often praised the movie The Prestige on this
list. I am curious to know, how did you interpret the line:
Would I be the man in the box or the prestige?
I would answer yes.
John K Clark
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You
Yes to what? It wasn't a yes or no question.
Jason
On Mon, May 4, 2015 at 11:49 AM, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, May 4, 2015 at 10:48 AM, Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com wrote:
John Clark, you have often praised the movie The Prestige on this
list. I am curious
:
On Mon, May 4, 2015 at 10:48 AM, Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com
wrote:
John Clark, you have often praised the movie The Prestige on this
list. I am curious to know, how did you interpret the line:
Would I be the man in the box or the prestige?
I would answer yes.
John K Clark
Bruno,
more seriously imo. And then I tell you without further explanation
that the prestige is truly more. We can come back on this later.
OK I cave in, I will watch this movie :-))
Cheers,
Günther
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Le 17-avr.-08, à 18:15, Günther Greindl a écrit :
I read the Wikipedia of The prestige (too lazy to watch the movie ;-)
and, yes, it's classical comp stuff *grin*
What I would like to recommend to everybody on the list is Greg Egan's
book
Permutation City
Yes that is a very good book
On Apr 17, 5:17 am, Bruno Marchal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Le 16-avr.-08, à 15:13, nichomachus (Steve) a écrit :
The Prestige, with Christian Bale, Hugh Jackman, Michael Caine, Andy
Serkis and David Bowie as Nikola Tesla... I also highly recommend
this very entertaining movie that I
Le 16-avr.-08, à 15:13, nichomachus (Steve) a écrit :
The Prestige, with Christian Bale, Hugh Jackman, Michael Caine, Andy
Serkis and David Bowie as Nikola Tesla... I also highly recommend
this very entertaining movie that I saw last week.
Unfortunately, Bruno, I don't see
ourselves, it may be possible to derive a probability
distribution describing the likelihood of our location in the
ensemble.
To go back to the comments you were making about the Prestige:
If the subject of a quantum immortality experiment finds himself
improbably alive, is he in some sense
I read the Wikipedia of The prestige (too lazy to watch the movie ;-)
and, yes, it's classical comp stuff *grin*
What I would like to recommend to everybody on the list is Greg Egan's book
Permutation City
I can recommend everything by Egan - hard, no nonsense, mathematically
informed SciFi
I recommend the movie The prestige. (2006 movie by Christopher Nolan
based on a novel by Christopher Priest).
Simulacron three (the book by Galouye, or the thirteen floor movie)
is the best introduction to our general topic (imo), especially through
comp and simulated reality. Matrix and many
The Prestige, with Christian Bale, Hugh Jackman, Michael Caine, Andy
Serkis and David Bowie as Nikola Tesla... I also highly recommend
this very entertaining movie that I saw last week.
Unfortunately, Bruno, I don't see the connection between this film and
the computationalist hypothesis
The Prestige is an excellent movie. It forced me to seriously consider the
questions of identity, personhood and consciousness that it raised and
ultimately it set me on the trajectory of joining this list. I would
explain more fully the relevance I see of this movie to the everything list
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