Re: Belief Statements

2005-01-26 Thread Tianran Chen
Hal Finney wrote: I had a problem with the demonstration in Permutation City. They claimed to chop up a simulated consciousness timewise, and then to run the pieces backwards: first the 10th second, then the 9th second, then the 8th, and so on. And of course the consciousness being simulated was

Re: Belief Statements

2005-01-26 Thread Stephen Paul King
Dear Hal and Tianran, Assuming there is some aspect of consciousness that requires QM ( I side with Penrose on this) these out of order computations are impossible. This boils down to the fact that for systems that have time-like relationship with each other will have observable that are not

Re: Belief Statements

2005-01-26 Thread Tianran Chen
Dear Stephen Stephen Paul King wrote: Dear Hal and Tianran, Assuming there is some aspect of consciousness that requires QM ( I side with Penrose on this) these out of order computations are impossible. This boils down to the fact that for systems that have time-like relationship with each ot

Re: Belief Statements

2005-01-26 Thread Stephen Paul King
Dear Tianran, QM is far more than a "set of equations"! It is a very predictive and falsifiable collection of principles and relationships. The most cunning of experimenters have been trying for almost 90 years to find a falsification, none yet has even been hinted. When a quantum gravity the