Re: Consciousness and anthropic reasoning

2001-02-13 Thread James Higgo (co.uk)
Jesse, nobody on this list is unaware of Carter's paper, to which I and others have referred in several of our papers. The point is, life is a high-level concept, not relevant to the more fundamental debate I thought we were having. What was the point of Anthropic Reasoning 101? So my question

Consciousness and anthropic reasoning

2001-02-12 Thread Jesse Mazer
James Higgo wrote: Jesse, The point you picked up 'self-referential thought' is not relevant to the discussion we were having. However, it is the most interesting thing in my post. I think it's actually pretty relevant. What we're talking about is what Nick Bostrom calls the problem of the