observer moment to this one becomes the
thing that drives my expectations of what I am likely to experience.
Indeed, some version of me experiences all of them, but each split copy
of me can only say to himself, what I am experiencing now was likely
(or unlikely) given where I was a moment ago.
Johnathan
an observer moment that would preserve personal identity is
unknown. Still, as long as there is a many-to-one relationship, then
the no-cloning theorem does not rule out transfer of identity through
your method X.
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digital level of
substitution is much higher than the exact quantum state of this
collection of particles. What microstate changes don't make a
difference, which do?
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, but one notable property
they have is that in sub-clinical dosages they suppress sensory input
while retaining consciousness. This results in similar, open loop
qualia.
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, proceed. Personally, if I don't understand something or
have an objection, you'll hear about it on the list, but I think you
should take silence as assent.
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loss in the hallucinogenic literature. Users report the experience of
being conscious in that they are awake, perceiving sensory data, and
performing motor functions, but they have no sense of self or I.
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is misguided, an example of
brains are mysterious, quantum mechanics is mysterious, therefore,
brains operate using quantum mechanics.
The mystery of quantum mechanics largely disappears with no-collapse
and decoherence anyway.
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these effects to zero in on how these brain
systems are related to our subjective experience of reality.
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and behold there is a drug
which has radical effects on the subjective experience of all three,
and a body of written reports to examine.
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associated with normal functioning.
All of the above speculation could still hold true in a
non-physicalist, computationalism-based view of consciousness, where
one would replace brain with computational substrate at appropriate
level of substitution.
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On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 2:37 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote:
Hameroff is a crackpot. If microtubles were the source of consciousness my
finger would be conscious; microtubles are in almost all cells.
This does not follow.
The ion channels which support the propagation of event
On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 7:45 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote:
Salvia and DMT seem to have NDE like effects
A common occurrence reported by users of Salvia Divinorum is that of having
lived an entire alternate life in the few minutes of intoxication, and even
being surprised and
On Sat, May 18, 2013 at 4:23 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote:
On 17 May 2013, at 22:52, Johnathan Corgan wrote:
A common occurrence reported by users of Salvia Divinorum is that of
having lived an entire alternate life in the few minutes of intoxication,
and even being surprised
On Sat, May 18, 2013 at 3:37 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote:
Matter is a first person plural sharable border by collections of machines
which multiplied collectively on the set of all computations.
It sure would nice if you could unpack this sentence, word by word, to help
make
On Sun, May 19, 2013 at 7:31 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote:
Feel free to ask more from this post, though. If you understand the FPI,
the rest follows from logic and some passive theoretical computer science,
I think.
Yes, I understand UDA 1-7 and the concept that first-person
On Sun, May 19, 2013 at 11:33 PM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote:
More to the point of my original comment, though, you frequently make
statements about how it follows from this an explanation of quantum,
qualia, matter, etc., using references to modal logic, Plotinus' theory of
On 07/08/2013 02:16 PM, Jason Resch wrote:
This one is very interesting, but the fact that Pi was a poor choice for
the constant makes the equation considerably more ugly than it should
be. There is a growing movement to usurp the number Pi with the much
more important constant 2*Pi
(see:
On Wed, 2006-11-08 at 09:39 -0800, Brent Meeker wrote:
Good old-fashioned miracles are not lawlike, which is what makes them
subject to empirical verification. If God is a Protestant, then an
examination of a list of lottery ticket winners or people with
serious illnesses should show
On Sat, 2006-11-11 at 00:30 +1100, Stathis Papaioannou wrote:
http://whywontgodhealamputees.com/god5.htm
Great article! I initially thought that it was written by some poor, honest
Christian
genuinely struggling with the logical consequences of his beliefs. But then
such a
person
On Fri, 2006-12-29 at 00:37 +1100, Stathis Papaioannou wrote:
Sure, it's a defect in the brain chemistry, but the delusional person will give
you his reasons for his belief:
[...]
This is very similar to the arguments of people with religious convictions, who will cite
evidence in support
Stathis Papaioannou wrote:
If some multiverse theory happens to be true then by your way of argument we
should all be extremely anxious all the time, because every moment terrible
things
are definitely happening to some copy of us. For example, we should be
constantly
be worrying that
the assistance line of reasoning above, in order to propagate,
one must be able to have children that are capable of having children
themselves.
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On Fri, 2008-11-14 at 10:46 -0800, Brent Meeker wrote:
That was my point. The SWE indicates that every microscopic event that
happens or doesn't happen stochastically splits the wave function. But
these events don't generally cause a split of Kory or other classical
objects. Those
these matters, except perhaps recently on this mailing list.
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So we're left with the state of our belief system unchanged, and
optimization of our finite resources means we just don't think about
these sorts of things.
I suppose that's neither 'atheism' or 'agnosticism'.
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Jonathan Colvin wrote:
I've sometimes wondered whether some anaesthetics might work this way: put
you into a state of paralysis, and affect your short term memory. So you
actually experience the doctor cutting you open, with all the concommitant
pain, but you can't report it at the time and
Lee Corbin wrote:
When I was in high school, I read that dentists were considering
use of a new anasthetic with this property. I was revolted, and
even more revolted when none of my friends could see anything
wrong with it.
Experiences are real, whether you remember them or not.
It's
Johnathan Corgan wrote:
(Of course, in my case, is was for a semi-surgical procedure that I
could probably have withstood with conscious sedation; I don't think I'd
^^ without
-Johnathan
Russell Standish wrote:
This leads to a speculation that memories are an essential requirement
for consciousness...
I agree. Had I known then what I know now, I would have asked the
nursing staff and doctor to question me in detail about my first person
experience *while it was happening*,
Stathis Papaioannou wrote:
It is likely that multiple error correction and negative
feedback systems are in place to ensure that small changes are not
chaotically amplified to cause gross mental changes after a few seconds,
On the other hand, the above may be precisely how consciousness
When considering possible continuations of observer-moments, one
speaks of dividing one's measure among them such that any succeeding
observer-moment has a relative proportion consistent with the quantum
amplitude of its wave function. (Or something like that.)
My first question is: Can this go
John Ross wrote:
My April 18, 2005 version of my Theory of Everything has recently been
published as a patent application. You can view it at the United States
Patent Office web site by going to www.uspto.gov . Click search then
click Published Number Search under Published Applications.
Stathis Papaioannou wrote:
There are many ways to escape from this scenario. If you are Tookie, you
will find yourself shunted into increasingly less likely situations: not
being caught in the first place; being caught but not being found
guilty; being sentenced to death but getting off on
Saibal Mitra wrote:
To me it seems that the notion of ''successor'' has to break down at cases
where the observer can die. The Tookies that are the most similar to the
Tookie who got executed are the ones who got clemency. There is no objective
reason why these Tookies should be excluded as
Marc Geddes wrote:
This is very recent (late 2005):
http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0510010
I've read this and the author's prior two papers on multi-dimensional time.
It appears that his mathematical formulation is able describe a variety
of quantum-mechanical properties by adding one or more
Norman Samish wrote:
I realize that there are unsolved problems in quantum mechanics that can be
solved by adding dimensions, whether spatial or time. I also know that
added dimensions are describable mathematically, and that some (Tegmark)
hold that this makes them real. However, as
David Nyman wrote:
[re: QTI]
This has obvious
implications for retirement planning in general and avoidance of the
more egregious cul-de-sac situations. On the other hand, short of
outright lunacy vis-a-vis personal safety, it also seems to imply that
from the 1st-person pov we are likely
David Nyman wrote:
Is this in fact your expectation? And do you so plan? Forgive me if
this seems overly personal, but I'm fascinated to discover if anyone
actually acts on these beliefs.
It's not overly personal; I brought it up in fact.
But personally, no, I don't act on these beliefs
Brent Meeker wrote:
Everett who originated the MWI thought about QTI. Although he never
explicitly said
he believed it, he led a very unhealthy life style smoking, drinking, eating
to
excees, never exercising and he died young, of a heart attack IIRC. So some
of his
acquaintences
On Thu, October 5, 2006 11:49, markpeaty wrote:
That said, I read with interest a year or two ago about certain kinds
of insects [I think they are in North America somewhere] which lie
dormant in the earth in some pre-adult stage for a PRIME number of
years, 11, 13, were chosen by different
I'm a layperson fascinated with quantum mechanics and the MWI, and have
reached a point where to obtain a better understanding of the
qualitative descriptions (universes splitting, measure of a
universe, etc.) I must learn the mathematical formalism. It appears
that the popular descriptions of
was making progress in understanding Bruno's
thesis. I clearly have a *long* way further to go in my studies :-)
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Congressmen Barney Frank and Ron Paul have introduced a bill in the
U.S. House of Representatives that would allow states to legalize or
otherwise liberalize marijuana laws without interference from the
federal government.
Brent
Purely symbolic--it will never make it out of committee.
On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 6:25 AM, Evgenii Rudnyi use...@rudnyi.ru wrote:
You know, I was raised in the USSR where the official religion was atheism
and materialism. The results were disastrous.
Um, I rather suspect the disaster was from having an official
religion, enforced by men with guns,
to write them down.
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Someone please help me debug my settings.
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