Lee Corbin writes:
Stathis writes
...I think we may basically agree, but there are some differences. If
you
look at it from a third person perspective, continuity of personal
identity
over time is not only a delusion but a rather strange and inconsistent
delusion.
I'm not quite sure I
Sorry, but I don't have much of an idea of what is being discussed
in this thread. Could you try to enlighten me?
Rmiller originally wrote
Equivalence
If the individual exists simultaneously across a many-world manifold, then
how can one even define a copy?
Well, I would say this (i.e.,
R. Miller writes
Lee Corbin wrote:
Stephen writes
I really do not want to be a stick-in-the-mud here,
but what do we base the idea that copies could
exist upon?
It is a conjecture called functionalism (or one of its close variants).
Functionalism, at least, in the social
At 12:36 PM 6/4/2005, Lee Corbin wrote:
R. Miller writes
Lee Corbin wrote:
Exposure to a nuclear detonation at 4000 yds typically kills about 1 in a
million cells. When that happens, you die. I would suggest that is a
bad
metaphor.
Well, my numbers, above, are *entirely* different
Stephen writes
Stephen writes
I really do not want to be a stick-in-the-mud here, but
what do we base the idea that copies could exist upon?
Don't worry about not going along with someone's program ;-)
I think that you're just being polite by calling yourself
a stick-in-the-mud. Why,
Brent wrote
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From: Brent Meeker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, June 03, 2005 8:39 AM
To: Everything-List
Subject: RE: Functionalism and People as Programs
I think there is considerable evidence to support the view that human level
intelligence could be
Hal Finney has provided some intriguing notions and possibly
some very useful explanations. But I would like help in clarifying
even the first several paragraphs, in order to maximize my
investment in the remainder.
But first a few comments; these may be premature, but if so,
the comments should
Here's a hypothetical situation. Your plane goes down in the wilds and
you're rescued by a tribe indigenous to the area. You're wearing the
latest clothes from the GAP, so the tribe elders decide you're a candidate
for shaman apprentice--a position that comes with nice lodging and pays
well
Lee Corbin writes:
But in general, what do observer-moments explain? Or what does the
hypothesis concerning them explain? I just don't get a good feel
that there are any higher level phenomena which might be reduced
to observer-moments (I am still very skeptical that all of physics
or math
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