> But suppose we can create an AI, but we can't produce copies that don't
> diverge immediately; perhaps a consequence of the quantum no-cloning
> theorem. I realize that's probably not the case since it would require
> that computation of the complexity to produce consciousness must include
> s
On 15 Aug, 01:37, "Quentin Anciaux" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 2008/8/15 Brent Meeker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
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> > But suppose we can create an AI, but we can't produce copies that don't
> > diverge immediately; perhaps a consequence of the quantum no-cloning
> > theorem. I realize that's proba
2008/8/15 Brent Meeker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> But that assumes there can be a computation independent of any material
> realization - a computation that never has an error. Real computations
> are realized by quantum mechanical devices. Of course they may be so
> large and hot that they are to
2008/8/15 1Z <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> The possibility that someone might be duplicated at some indeterminate
> point in the future leads to no indeminacy affecting me now.
The indeterminacy works the same way across time as across space. If I
know that there are two copies of my mind being impleme
On 15 Aug, 14:05, "Stathis Papaioannou" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> If I
> know that there are two copies of my mind being implemented on two
> adjacent computers,
You don't know that. That is the whole problem.
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Stathis Papaioannou wrote:
> 2008/8/15 Brent Meeker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
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>> But that assumes there can be a computation independent of any material
>> realization - a computation that never has an error. Real computations
>> are realized by quantum mechanical devices. Of course they may b
G.G. wrote:
1Z wrote:
> It doesn't have to explain it on the basis of apriori axioms. Standard
> cosmology accepts
> that many features fo the universe stem from contingent, essentially
> unaccountable boundary conditions.
GüGr:
"Well, actually these strangely "contingent" conditions are what lea
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