RE: FW: Everything Physical is Based on Consciousness

2005-05-09 Thread "Hal Finney"
list@eskimo.com > >Subject: RE: FW: Everything Physical is Based on Consciousness > > > > > >Brent Meeker writes: > >> >>From: "Hal Finney" [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> >Yes, I think it is enough that I have thought of the concept! Or mor

RE: FW: Everything Physical is Based on Consciousness

2005-05-09 Thread "Hal Finney"
Brent Meeker writes: > >>From: "Hal Finney" [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Yes, I think it is enough that I have thought of the concept! Or more > >accurately, I think it is enough that the concept is thinkable-of. > > Why bother with the computer at all. Since you're just conceptualizing the > com

RE: FW: Everything Physical is Based on Consciousness

2005-05-09 Thread Brent Meeker
>-Original Message- >From: "Hal Finney" [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2005 4:12 AM >To: everything-list@eskimo.com >Subject: Re: FW: Everything Physical is Based on Consciousness > > >>From: "Hal Finney" [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: FW: Everything Physical is Based on Consciousness

2005-05-09 Thread "Hal Finney"
>From: "Hal Finney" [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Another way to think of it is that all bit strings >exist, timelessly; and some of them implicitly specify computer programs; >and some of those computer programs would create universes with observers >just like us in them. You don't necessarily need

FW: Everything Physical is Based on Consciousness

2005-05-09 Thread Brent Meeker
-Original Message- > >-Original Message- > >From: "Hal Finney" [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Sent: Friday, May 06, 2005 8:12 PM > >To: everything-list@eskimo.com > >Subject: Re: Everything Physical is Based on Consciousness > > > > > >Stephen Paul King writes: > >> I think that