Re: QTI and eternal torment

2012-06-13 Thread David Nyman
On 13 June 2012 14:12, Bruno Marchal wrote: *The question "why am I David" is twofold:* * * *- One aspect is "trivial" and admit the same explanation as "why am I in W and not in M" in the WM-duplication. Here comp can explain that there is no answer possible to that question (first person indete

Re: QTI and eternal torment

2012-06-13 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 12 Jun 2012, at 22:48, David Nyman wrote: On 12 June 2012 17:36, Bruno Marchal wrote: Yes, but the expression "from the current state of any universal machine" (different sense of universal, of course) already *assumes* the restriction of universal attention to a particular state of a par

Re: QTI and eternal torment

2012-06-12 Thread David Nyman
On 12 June 2012 17:36, Bruno Marchal wrote: Yes, but the expression "from the current state of any universal >> machine" (different sense of universal, of course) already *assumes* >> the restriction of universal attention to a particular state of a >> particular machine. >> > > But is that not

Re: QTI and eternal torment

2012-06-12 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 11 Jun 2012, at 17:44, Stephen P. King wrote: On 6/11/2012 8:04 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 10 Jun 2012, at 22:57, David Nyman wrote: On 10 June 2012 17:26, Bruno Marchal wrote: I am not sure I understand your problem with that simultaneity. The arithmetical relations are out of time.

Re: QTI and eternal torment

2012-06-12 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 11 Jun 2012, at 15:09, David Nyman wrote: On 11 June 2012 13:04, Bruno Marchal wrote: Why do you think that pure indexicality (self-reference) is not enough? It seems clear to me that from the current state of any universal machine, it will look like a special moment is chosen out of

Re: QTI and eternal torment

2012-06-11 Thread David Nyman
On 11 June 2012 16:27, meekerdb wrote: That seems confused. The theory is that 'you' are some set of those states. > If you introduce an external 'knower' you've lost the explanatory function > of the theory. > Well, I'm referring to Hoyle's idea, which explicitly introduces such a knower. But

Re: QTI and eternal torment

2012-06-11 Thread Stephen P. King
On 6/11/2012 8:04 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 10 Jun 2012, at 22:57, David Nyman wrote: On 10 June 2012 17:26, Bruno Marchal wrote: I am not sure I understand your problem with that simultaneity. The arithmetical relations are out of time. It would not make sense to say that they are simul

Re: QTI and eternal torment

2012-06-11 Thread meekerdb
On 6/11/2012 6:09 AM, David Nyman wrote: On 11 June 2012 13:04, Bruno Marchal wrote: Why do you think that pure indexicality (self-reference) is not enough? It seems clear to me that from the current state of any universal machine, it will look like a special moment is chosen out of the others

Re: QTI and eternal torment

2012-06-11 Thread David Nyman
On 11 June 2012 13:04, Bruno Marchal wrote: > Why do you think that pure indexicality (self-reference) is not enough? It > seems clear to me that from the current state of any universal machine, it > will look like a special moment is chosen out of the others, for the > elementary reason that suc

Re: QTI and eternal torment

2012-06-11 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 10 Jun 2012, at 22:57, David Nyman wrote: On 10 June 2012 17:26, Bruno Marchal wrote: I am not sure I understand your problem with that simultaneity. The arithmetical relations are out of time. It would not make sense to say that they are simultaneously true, because this refer to some

Re: QTI and eternal torment

2012-06-10 Thread David Nyman
On 10 June 2012 17:26, Bruno Marchal wrote: > I am not sure I understand your problem with that simultaneity. The > arithmetical relations are out of time. It would not make sense to say that > they are simultaneously true, because this refer to some "time", and can > only be used as a metaphor.

Re: QTI and eternal torment

2012-06-10 Thread Bruno Marchal
o) Bruno On 08 Jun 2012, at 01:11, Nick Prince wrote: I’ve just read the following paper : http://istvanaranyosi.net/resources/Should%20we%20fear%20qt %20final.pdf which argues that it is possible to avoid the descent into decrepitude that seems to follow from the quantum theory

Re: QTI and eternal torment

2012-06-10 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 09 Jun 2012, at 22:23, meekerdb wrote: On 6/9/2012 3:17 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: Imagine that you decide to kill yourself with an atomic bomb, so as to maximize your annihilation probability. Then it might be that your probability of surviving in a world where you are just not deciding

Re: QTI and eternal torment

2012-06-10 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 09 Jun 2012, at 15:42, David Nyman wrote: On 9 June 2012 11:17, Bruno Marchal wrote: Such a backtracking (proposed once by Saibal Mitra on this list) can also be used to defend the idea that there is only one person, and that personal identity is a relative "illusory" notion. We might

Re: QTI and eternal torment

2012-06-09 Thread Nick Prince
What, you ask, was the beginning of it all? > > And it is this ... > Existence that multiplied itself > For sheer delight of being > And plunged into numberless trillions of forms > So that it might > Find > Itself > Innumerably (Aurobindo) > > > > > > &

Re: QTI and eternal torment

2012-06-09 Thread meekerdb
On 6/9/2012 3:17 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: Imagine that you decide to kill yourself with an atomic bomb, so as to maximize your annihilation probability. Then it might be that your probability of surviving in a world where you are just not deciding to kill yourself is bigger than surviving from s

Re: QTI and eternal torment

2012-06-09 Thread meekerdb
On 6/9/2012 2:44 AM, Pierz wrote: On Saturday, June 9, 2012 12:27:43 PM UTC+10, Brent wrote: On 6/8/2012 7:02 PM, Pierz wrote: I don't know, somehow this whole argument is not something I could take seriously enough to get worked up over - too many what ifs piled up on other what if

Re: QTI and eternal torment

2012-06-09 Thread David Nyman
On 9 June 2012 11:17, Bruno Marchal wrote: > Such a backtracking (proposed once by Saibal Mitra on this list) can also be > used to defend the idea that there is only one person, and that personal > identity is a relative "illusory" notion. We might be a "God" playing a > trick to himself, notabl

Re: QTI and eternal torment

2012-06-09 Thread Bruno Marchal
forms So that it might Find Itself Innumerably (Aurobindo) Bruno On 08 Jun 2012, at 01:11, Nick Prince wrote: I’ve just read the following paper : http://istvanaranyosi.net/resources/Should%20we%20fear%20qt %20final.pdf which argues that it is possible to avoid the descent into

Re: QTI and eternal torment

2012-06-09 Thread Pierz
On Saturday, June 9, 2012 12:27:43 PM UTC+10, Brent wrote: > > On 6/8/2012 7:02 PM, Pierz wrote: > > I don't know, somehow this whole argument is not something I could take > seriously enough to get worked up over - too many what ifs piled up on other > what ifs. But I think I see a couple of

Re: QTI and eternal torment

2012-06-09 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 08 Jun 2012, at 19:30, Johnathan Corgan wrote: On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 12:45 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: This is a bit unclear. How is U and D distinguished from the (absence of) first person view? I think this is actually the point--calculations of expected future experiences based on

Re: QTI and eternal torment

2012-06-08 Thread meekerdb
On 6/8/2012 7:02 PM, Pierz wrote: I don't know, somehow this whole argument is not something I could take seriously enough to get worked up over - too many what ifs piled up on other what ifs. But I think I see a couple of flaws in this argument. Firstly, I am not sure about the equation of un

Re: QTI and eternal torment

2012-06-08 Thread Pierz
I don't know, somehow this whole argument is not something I could take seriously enough to get worked up over - too many what ifs piled up on other what ifs. But I think I see a couple of flaws in this argument. Firstly, I am not sure about the equation of unconsciousness with death. Why should

Re: QTI and eternal torment

2012-06-08 Thread Nick Prince
/istvanaranyosi.net/resources/Should%20we%20fear%20qt > > %20final.pdf > > > which argues that it is possible to avoid the descent into decrepitude > > that seems to follow from the quantum theory of immortality (QTI). > > Aranyosi argues that this is plausible on the ground

Re: QTI and eternal torment

2012-06-08 Thread Johnathan Corgan
On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 12:45 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: > This is a bit unclear. How is U and D distinguished from the (absence of) > first person view? I think this is actually the point--calculations of expected future experiences based on now being in the neighborhood of D (which result in "tor

Re: QTI and eternal torment

2012-06-08 Thread Bruno Marchal
s to follow from the quantum theory of immortality (QTI). Aranyosi argues that this is plausible on the grounds that any death branch would be preceded by an unconsciousness branch. Under normal QTI circumstances, if we were Schrödinger’s cat we would come across the (3p) node (L= Lives, D= Dies):

Re: QTI and eternal torment

2012-06-07 Thread Nick Prince
gues that it is possible to avoid the descent into decrepitude > that seems to follow from the quantum theory of immortality (QTI). > Aranyosi argues that this is plausible on the grounds that any death > branch would be preceded by an unconsciousness branch.  Under normal > QT

QTI and eternal torment

2012-06-07 Thread Nick Prince
I’ve just read the following paper : http://istvanaranyosi.net/resources/Should%20we%20fear%20qt%20final.pdf which argues that it is possible to avoid the descent into decrepitude that seems to follow from the quantum theory of immortality (QTI). Aranyosi argues that this is plausible on the

Re: Amnesia, dissociation and personal identity (was: QTI, Cul de sacs and di...

2011-11-22 Thread Nick Prince
oved than than the space case, but > theoretically it should be similar. > > I'm not at all sure how you might refute QTI using this, but please elaborate. > > Cheers > > Hi Russell Is teleportation through (space)time not just the same as Bruno's UDA argument where a delay i

Re: Amnesia, dissociation and personal identity (was: QTI, Cul de sacs and di...

2011-11-16 Thread spudboy100
-list Sent: Wed, Nov 16, 2011 3:41 am Subject: Re: Amnesia, dissociation and personal identity (was: QTI, Cul de sacs and di... In principle, yes. What you are talking about is "quantum erasure". It hould even be possible to do it without forgetting the current orldline (in which cas

Re: Amnesia, dissociation and personal identity (was: QTI, Cul de sacs and di...

2011-11-16 Thread Russell Standish
e how you might refute QTI using this, but please elaborate. Cheers On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 03:11:59PM -0500, spudboy...@aol.com wrote: > This may be off-topic, but taking on a fanciful, notion; is there a means, > in principle, for somebody biologically alive, to physically go into other

Re: Amnesia, dissociation and personal identity (was: QTI, Cul de sacs and di...

2011-11-15 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 14 Nov 2011, at 21:11, spudboy...@aol.com wrote: This may be off-topic, but taking on a fanciful, notion; is there a means, in principle, for somebody biologically alive, to physically go into other world-lines? With the QM theory: no. But Steven Weinberg has shown that if QM is slight

Re: Amnesia, dissociation and personal identity (was: QTI, Cul de sacs and di...

2011-11-14 Thread Spudboy100
This may be off-topic, but taking on a fanciful, notion; is there a means, in principle, for somebody biologically alive, to physically go into other world-lines? I am using the Hugh Everett the 3rd's conception of other worlds/universes. I am, just as a thought, trying to negate the Quantum

Re: Amnesia, dissociation and personal identity (was: QTI, Cul de sacs and differentiation)

2011-11-14 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 07 Nov 2011, at 23:08, John Mikes wrote: To Qentin: "DEATH" an excellent vaiation for immoprtality. I always emphasize that ETERNITY is NOT a "time" indicator, can most likely be timeless ("POOF" it is over). To Bruno: we wrote already about your 2c question "WHO ARE WE?" and you ans

Re: QTI, Cul de sacs and differentiation

2011-11-09 Thread benjayk
. With light pressure I mean that we can confront people with deep things, even if they are not immediatly thankful for it (like daring to question deeply ingrained and cherished beliefs, which are subtly destructive). Ultimately, I have no worries about anybody. It might be a very long and rough ri

Re: QTI, Cul de sacs and differentiation

2011-11-09 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 08 Nov 2011, at 20:56, benjayk wrote: Bruno Marchal wrote: I would rather call this consciousness. Indeed I agree with Dan that it is quite accurate to say that there is no person in the sense that experience is not personal, it doesn't "belong" to anyone (but it is very intimate with

Re: QTI, Cul de sacs and differentiation

2011-11-08 Thread benjayk
e really are, and so fear becomes just a tool to sense whether there is an actually imminent danger, not something that is constantly (whether obviously or subtly) determining the way we live our lifes. benjayk -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/QTI%2C-Cul-de-sacs-and-differen

Re: QTI, Cul de sacs and differentiation

2011-11-08 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 07 Nov 2011, at 21:02, benjayk wrote: Bruno Marchal wrote: But if you realize that there has never been a person to begin with, But this contradicts immediately my present consciousness feeling. I am currently in the state of wanting to drink water, so I am pretty sure that there exis

Re: QTI, Cul de sacs and differentiation

2011-11-08 Thread benjayk
ness that corresponded to that person at that time. benjayk -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/QTI%2C-Cul-de-sacs-and-differentiation-tp32721336p32802801.html Sent from the Everything List mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- You received this message because you are subscribed

Re: QTI, Cul de sacs and differentiation

2011-11-08 Thread benjayk
ective evidence that you are conscious, or that I am conscious, or that a fetus is conscious. It is not measurable, but it is still there, even if some materialist tend to deny that (which shows how far we are removed from ourselves and reality, we actually ignore that which is undoubtably and obv

Re: Amnesia, dissociation and personal identity (was: QTI, Cul de sacs and differentiation)

2011-11-07 Thread John Mikes
To Qentin: "DEATH" an excellent vaiation for immoprtality. I always emphasize that ETERNITY is NOT a "time" indicator, can most likely be timeless ("POOF" it is over). To Bruno: we wrote already about your 2c question "WHO ARE WE?" and you answered something like "Gods". That may be a cheap shot,

Re: QTI, Cul de sacs and differentiation

2011-11-07 Thread meekerdb
On 11/7/2011 12:02 PM, benjayk wrote: I think we only fear the elimination of personhood because we confuse being conscious as an ego with being conscious. We somehow think that if we in the state of feeling to be a seperate individual cease to exist, we as conscious beings cease to exist, which

Re: QTI, Cul de sacs and differentiation

2011-11-07 Thread benjayk
a big change of perspective, and we fear that as we fear the unknown in general. benjayk -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/QTI%2C-Cul-de-sacs-and-differentiation-tp32721336p32788744.html Sent from the Everything List mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- You received this

Re: QTI, Cul de sacs and differentiation

2011-11-07 Thread meekerdb
On 11/7/2011 9:50 AM, benjayk wrote: meekerdb wrote: > > How great was that? I don't know. Being a fetus might be a peaceful experience, or like sleep. But the point is that it doesn't matter how great the experience was, So what's your evidence that there is *any* experience of "being a

Re: QTI, Cul de sacs and differentiation

2011-11-07 Thread benjayk
ight be a peaceful experience, or like sleep. But the point is that it doesn't matter how great the experience was, since what we are is beyond particular experiences (it is experiencing itself). Even when I feel absolutely terrible I still am beyond all, I just don't realize it. The very f

Re: QTI, Cul de sacs and differentiation

2011-11-07 Thread benjayk
great burden is lifted from you. Unfortunately this realization is rare, since it requires one to not buy into the dominant collective delusion and deeply ingrained feelings of fear towards death of self. Quentin Anciaux-2 wrote: > >> Neither >> experientally, nor logically or scien

Re: Amnesia, dissociation and personal identity (was: QTI, Cul de sacs and differentiation)

2011-11-06 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 06 Nov 2011, at 12:29, Quentin Anciaux wrote: 2011/11/6 Bruno Marchal Quentin, On 30 Oct 2011, at 23:51, Quentin Anciaux wrote: benjayk: On the other hand, I don't see why we would ignore immortality of consciousness, considering that the "I" is just a psychosocial construct/illusion a

Re: Amnesia, dissociation and personal identity (was: QTI, Cul de sacs and differentiation)

2011-11-06 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2011/11/6 Bruno Marchal > Quentin, > > On 30 Oct 2011, at 23:51, Quentin Anciaux wrote: > > benjayk: >> On the other hand, I don't see why we would ignore immortality of >> consciousness, considering that the "I" is just a psychosocial >> construct/illusion anyway. We don't find an actual "I" any

Amnesia, dissociation and personal identity (was: QTI, Cul de sacs and differentiation)

2011-11-06 Thread Bruno Marchal
Quentin, On 30 Oct 2011, at 23:51, Quentin Anciaux wrote: benjayk: On the other hand, I don't see why we would ignore immortality of consciousness, considering that the "I" is just a psychosocial construct/illusion anyway. We don't find an actual "I" anywhere. It seems very relevant to know

Re: QTI, Cul de sacs and differentiation

2011-11-04 Thread Bruno Marchal
Hi Dan, On 03 Nov 2011, at 03:08, freqflyer07281972 wrote: Hey there, I don't often post on this board, but I follow it quite frequently, and perhaps I might inject a 'fresh voice' to rescue this thread of a cul-de-sac of its own. It's essentially buddhist in nature rather than mathematical or

Re: QTI, Cul de sacs and differentiation

2011-11-03 Thread meekerdb
On 11/3/2011 7:07 AM, benjayk wrote: There is no difference, as there is no your and mine consciousness. Consciousness can not be owned, and can not be divided into pieces. There is just consciousness. It is very easily experientally confirmable: Do you ever experience anything other than this co

Re: QTI, Cul de sacs and differentiation

2011-11-03 Thread Quentin Anciaux
;> have another consciousness. There is no evidence for this at all. > >> > >> We can speak of your consciousness and my consciousness on a relative > >> level, > >> meaning one particular expression of consciousness and another > particular > >>

Re: QTI, Cul de sacs and differentiation

2011-11-03 Thread benjayk
nction, and there are contexts >> where >> this distinction makes little or no sense, like when we die or when we >> are >> in objectless and perceptionless meditation. >> >> >> Quentin Anciaux-2 wrote: >> > >> > what is *preserved*

Re: QTI, Cul de sacs and differentiation

2011-11-03 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2 wrote: > > > > When you take drug and "forget"... you then remember when the effects > > stop, > > proving you still have your memory. > That's beside the point. What's important is that we can experience total > memory loss, while still being there. Why

Re: QTI, Cul de sacs and differentiation

2011-11-03 Thread benjayk
What's important is that we can experience total memory loss, while still being there. Why would it be important whether you later concretely remember something or not? That seem irrelevant to the continuity of experience. Quentin Anciaux-2 wrote: > > A person who w

Re: QTI, Cul de sacs and differentiation

2011-11-02 Thread meekerdb
On 11/2/2011 7:08 PM, freqflyer07281972 wrote: Hey there, I don't often post on this board, but I follow it quite frequently, and perhaps I might inject a 'fresh voice' to rescue this thread of a cul-de-sac of its own. It's essentially buddhist in nature rather than mathematical or computational

Re: QTI, Cul de sacs and differentiation

2011-11-02 Thread freqflyer07281972
Hey there, I don't often post on this board, but I follow it quite frequently, and perhaps I might inject a 'fresh voice' to rescue this thread of a cul-de-sac of its own. It's essentially buddhist in nature rather than mathematical or computational, so forgive me if I appear presumptuous, or off

Re: QTI, Cul de sacs and differentiation

2011-11-02 Thread Nick Prince
On 1 November 2011 21:07, Russell Standish wrote: > On Tue, Nov 01, 2011 at 01:07:31PM -0700, Nick Prince wrote: > > This is where I am coming from: > > > > I accept decoherence as the mechanism for suppressing interference > > between universes and that this happens very quickly (no time for us

Re: QTI, Cul de sacs and differentiation

2011-11-02 Thread Nick Prince
On Oct 27, 12:10 am, Russell Standish wrote: > On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 04:00:56PM -0700, Nick Prince wrote: > > QTI, Cul de sacs and differentiation > > > I’m trying to get a  picture of how David Deutsch’s idea of > > differentiation works – especially in relation to QT

Re: QTI, Cul de sacs and differentiation

2011-11-02 Thread meekerdb
On 11/2/2011 11:45 AM, benjayk wrote: Quentin Anciaux-2 wrote: 2011/11/1 benjayk Quentin Anciaux-2 wrote: 2011/10/30 benjayk Quentin Anciaux-2 wrote: 2011/10/30 benjayk Nick Prince-2 wrote: This is similar to my speculations in an earlier topic post http://groups.google.com/group

Re: QTI, Cul de sacs and differentiation

2011-11-02 Thread Quentin Anciaux
ence > to continue consistently. This is also not true, we can experience things > that are totally disconnected from all memories we have, yet still it is > the > I (not the "I") that experiences it. For example on a drug trip, you can > literally forget every trace of w

Re: QTI, Cul de sacs and differentiation

2011-11-02 Thread benjayk
continue consistently. This is also not true, we can experience things that are totally disconnected from all memories we have, yet still it is the I (not the "I") that experiences it. For example on a drug trip, you can literally forget every trace of what your life was like, in terms of

Re: QTI, Cul de sacs and differentiation

2011-11-01 Thread Jason Resch
On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 5:40 PM, Quentin Anciaux wrote: > > > 2011/11/1 benjayk > >> >> >> Quentin Anciaux-2 wrote: >> > >> > 2011/10/30 benjayk >> > >> >> >> >> >> >> Quentin Anciaux-2 wrote: >> >> > >> >> > 2011/10/30 benjayk >> >> > >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> Nick Prince-2 wrote: >> >> >> >

Re: QTI, Cul de sacs and differentiation

2011-11-01 Thread meekerdb
On 11/1/2011 3:40 PM, Quentin Anciaux wrote: What do you mean by "consciousness" ? I don't care about "eternal" not me... it's the *same* thing as death. When talking about dying, what's important is the person who die, if something is left who doesn't know that it was that person... what does i

Re: QTI, Cul de sacs and differentiation

2011-11-01 Thread meekerdb
On 11/1/2011 2:07 PM, Russell Standish wrote: On Tue, Nov 01, 2011 at 01:07:31PM -0700, Nick Prince wrote: This is where I am coming from: I accept decoherence as the mechanism for suppressing interference between universes and that this happens very quickly (no time for us to notice). So assu

Re: QTI, Cul de sacs and differentiation

2011-11-01 Thread meekerdb
On 11/1/2011 1:07 PM, Nick Prince wrote: [BM] I don't think I understand it any better than you do. But ISTM we need a quantum theory of consciousness in order to write eqns like (3) above. In the standard theory it implies that there is some experience of both system states at the same time.

Re: QTI, Cul de sacs and differentiation

2011-11-01 Thread Quentin Anciaux
> >> > >> How would you call this, if not immortality? > > > > > > Death. > > > You would call eternal existence of consciousness "death"? What do you mean by "consciousness" ? I don't care about "eternal" not me

Re: QTI, Cul de sacs and differentiation

2011-11-01 Thread Russell Standish
On Tue, Nov 01, 2011 at 01:07:31PM -0700, Nick Prince wrote: > This is where I am coming from: > > I accept decoherence as the mechanism for suppressing interference > between universes and that this happens very quickly (no time for us > to notice). So assuming the everett interpretation, there

Re: QTI, Cul de sacs and differentiation

2011-11-01 Thread Nick Prince
[BM] > I don't think I understand it any better than you do.  But ISTM we need a > quantum theory > of consciousness in order to write eqns like (3) above. In the standard > theory it implies > that there is some experience of both system states at the same time.  A > change of basis > changes

Re: QTI, Cul de sacs and differentiation

2011-11-01 Thread benjayk
imagination, >> or - if more consistent - are lived by other persons (which, for example, >> didn't get into the deadly situation in the first place). >> >> On the other hand, I don't see why we would ignore immortality of >> consciousness, considering that t

Re: QTI, Cul de sacs and differentiation

2011-11-01 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 31 Oct 2011, at 23:56, meekerdb wrote: On 10/31/2011 11:02 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: Why? Everett shows convincingly that, being a memory machine, when we measure a superposition state, we just entangle ourself with the superposition state, but this differentiate the consciousness/ memor

Re: QTI, Cul de sacs and differentiation

2011-10-31 Thread meekerdb
On 10/31/2011 11:02 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: Why? Everett shows convincingly that, being a memory machine, when we measure a superposition state, we just entangle ourself with the superposition state, but this differentiate the consciousness/memory of the machine, and she can feel the split.

Re: QTI, Cul de sacs and differentiation

2011-10-31 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 31 Oct 2011, at 18:13, meekerdb wrote: On 10/31/2011 6:01 AM, Nick Prince wrote: On Oct 31, 5:30 am, meekerdb wrote: On 10/30/2011 5:13 PM, Nick Prince wrote: On Oct 30, 8:56 pm, Russell Standish wrote: My point about the unitary evolution was that the clicking of the Geiger count

Re: QTI, Cul de sacs and differentiation

2011-10-31 Thread meekerdb
On 10/31/2011 6:01 AM, Nick Prince wrote: On Oct 31, 5:30 am, meekerdb wrote: On 10/30/2011 5:13 PM, Nick Prince wrote: On Oct 30, 8:56 pm, Russell Standishwrote: My point about the unitary evolution was that the clicking of the Geiger counter is not a unitary process - and until you

Re: QTI, Cul de sacs and differentiation

2011-10-31 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 30 Oct 2011, at 10:34, benjayk wrote: Nick Prince-2 wrote: This is similar to my speculations in an earlier topic post http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list/browse_thread/thread/4514b50b8eb469c3/c49c3aa24c265a4b?lnk=gst&q=homomorphic#c49c3aa24c265a4b where I suggest that very

Re: QTI, Cul de sacs and differentiation

2011-10-31 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 31 Oct 2011, at 06:20, meekerdb wrote: On 10/30/2011 5:09 PM, Stathis Papaioannou wrote: A common response to the idea of QTI is, Why should I care if I die and someone else in another world who thinks he is me survives? But this objection shows a lack of understanding of consciousness

Re: QTI, Cul de sacs and differentiation

2011-10-31 Thread Nick Prince
On Oct 31, 5:30 am, meekerdb wrote: > On 10/30/2011 5:13 PM, Nick Prince wrote: > > > > > On Oct 30, 8:56 pm, Russell Standish  wrote: > > >> My point about the unitary evolution was that the clicking of the > >> Geiger counter is not a unitary process - and until you hear it, you > >> remain i

Re: QTI, Cul de sacs and differentiation

2011-10-31 Thread Bruno Marchal
requires that there be distinguished variables in which the density matrix becomes diagonal - the "pointer basis". If reality is discrete. If, not matrix might never become diagonal, and in that case QTI follows, and first person, from their first person view cannot be annihilated. With m

Re: QTI, Cul de sacs and differentiation

2011-10-30 Thread meekerdb
On 10/30/2011 5:13 PM, Nick Prince wrote: On Oct 30, 8:56 pm, Russell Standish wrote: My point about the unitary evolution was that the clicking of the Geiger counter is not a unitary process - and until you hear it, you remain in superposition. - Show quoted text - I thought that in the e

Re: QTI, Cul de sacs and differentiation

2011-10-30 Thread meekerdb
On 10/30/2011 5:09 PM, Stathis Papaioannou wrote: A common response to the idea of QTI is, Why should I care if I die and someone else in another world who thinks he is me survives? But this objection shows a lack of understanding of consciousness works if there are multiple instantiations

Re: QTI, Cul de sacs and differentiation

2011-10-30 Thread Nick Prince
On Oct 30, 8:56 pm, Russell Standish wrote: > My point about the unitary evolution was that the clicking of the > Geiger counter is not a unitary process - and until you hear it, you remain in > superposition. > > > - Show quoted text - I thought that in the everett interpretation everything w

Re: QTI, Cul de sacs and differentiation

2011-10-30 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
with our experience and > observation - that the other possibilities are merely dreams, imagination, > or - if more consistent - are lived by other persons (which, for example, > didn't get into the deadly situation in the first place). A common response to the idea of QTI is, Why shoul

Re: QTI, Cul de sacs and differentiation

2011-10-30 Thread Quentin Anciaux
perience can indeed > survive eternally. Why would I care whether an imagined "I" experiences it > or not? > > How would you call this, if not immortality? Death. > Actually eternal youth seems > closer to eternal life to me than eternally growing old, which would

Re: QTI, Cul de sacs and differentiation

2011-10-30 Thread benjayk
l this, if not immortality? Actually eternal youth seems closer to eternal life to me than eternally growing old, which would be more properly termed "eternal existing" or "not-quite-mortality". If we are cut off from experiencing the undeveloped innocent freshness of children - no

Re: QTI, Cul de sacs and differentiation

2011-10-30 Thread Russell Standish
> apparatus with non ideal systems then you can use something like the > alternate evolutions to model the situation > OK, this is different from the usual thought experiment. You have engineered a cul de sac here. A QTI enthusiast will point out that macroscopic devices working perfectly

Re: QTI, Cul de sacs and differentiation

2011-10-30 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 29 Oct 2011, at 20:07, Nick Prince wrote: On Oct 29, 6:44 pm, Stathis Papaioannou wrote: On Oct 30, 2011, at 3:17 AM, Nick Prince wrote: Maybe you are thinking of Tegmark level 1 or level 2 type multiverses here, in which case I agree. What I was doing in my analysis was thin

Re: QTI, Cul de sacs and differentiation

2011-10-30 Thread Nick Prince
systems then you can use something like the alternate evolutions to model the situation exp(-iHt/hbar)(|s1>|a0>)=|s1>(a|a0> + b|a1> + c|a2>) exp(-iHt/hbar)(|s2>|a0>)=|s2>(a|a0> + c|a1> + b|a2>) which I gave originally. with these forms the cat can't kno

Re: QTI, Cul de sacs and differentiation

2011-10-30 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2011/10/30 benjayk > > > Nick Prince-2 wrote: > > > > > > This is similar to my speculations in an earlier topic post > > > http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list/browse_thread/thread/4514b50b8eb469c3/c49c3aa24c265a4b?lnk=gst&q=homomorphic#c49c3aa24c265a4b > > where I suggest that very o

Re: QTI, Cul de sacs and differentiation

2011-10-30 Thread benjayk
ople consider this possiblity of immortality, as it both fits more with our intuition (does it really seem probable that all persons grow abitrarily old?) and with observation (people do actually die) than other forms of immortality. benjayk -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.c

Re: QTI, Cul de sacs and differentiation

2011-10-30 Thread Russell Standish
On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 03:44:46PM -0700, Nick Prince wrote: > > [NP] > > > Maybe you are thinking of Tegmark level 1 or level 2 type multiverses > > > here, in which case I agree.  What I was doing in my analysis was > > > thinking about QM type 3 multiverses only. Let's pretend that these > > >

Re: QTI, Cul de sacs and differentiation

2011-10-29 Thread Nick Prince
[NP] > > Maybe you are thinking of Tegmark level 1 or level 2 type multiverses > > here, in which case I agree.  What I was doing in my analysis was > > thinking about QM type 3 multiverses only. Let's pretend that these > > are the only variety for the moment, then my analysis does indicate > > t

Re: QTI, Cul de sacs and differentiation

2011-10-29 Thread Nick Prince
>[SPK]  From what I can tell, cul de sac's would have 3p consequences that > would have an effect on the distribution of branches. Maybe we should > consider what effect the 'rest of the universe' has on the 1p of the cat. > > Onward! > > Stephen > [NP] Had a think but still not sure what you m

Re: QTI, Cul de sacs and differentiation

2011-10-29 Thread Nick Prince
On Oct 27, 11:52 am, benjayk wrote: > Jason Resch-2 wrote: > > > On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 6:00 PM, Nick Prince > > wrote: > > >> QTI, Cul de sacs and differentiation > > >> I’m trying to get a  picture of how David Deutsch’s idea of > >> di

Re: QTI, Cul de sacs and differentiation

2011-10-29 Thread Russell Standish
On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 09:17:17AM -0700, Nick Prince wrote: > Hi Stathis > > Maybe you are thinking of Tegmark level 1 or level 2 type multiverses > here, in which case I agree. What I was doing in my analysis was > thinking about QM type 3 multiverses only. Let's pretend that these > are the on

Re: QTI, Cul de sacs and differentiation

2011-10-29 Thread Nick Prince
On Oct 29, 6:44 pm, Stathis Papaioannou wrote: > On Oct 30, 2011, at 3:17 AM, Nick Prince > wrote: > > > > > > > Maybe you are thinking of Tegmark level 1 or level 2 type multiverses > > here, in which case I agree.  What I was doing in my analysis was > > thinking about QM type 3 multiverses

Re: QTI, Cul de sacs and differentiation

2011-10-29 Thread Nick Prince
On Oct 29, 6:44 pm, Stathis Papaioannou wrote: > On Oct 30, 2011, at 3:17 AM, Nick Prince > wrote: > > > > > > > Maybe you are thinking of Tegmark level 1 or level 2 type multiverses > > here, in which case I agree.  What I was doing in my analysis was > > thinking about QM type 3 multiverses

Re: QTI, Cul de sacs and differentiation

2011-10-29 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
On Oct 30, 2011, at 3:17 AM, Nick Prince wrote: > Maybe you are thinking of Tegmark level 1 or level 2 type multiverses > here, in which case I agree. What I was doing in my analysis was > thinking about QM type 3 multiverses only. Let's pretend that these > are the only variety for the moment

Re: QTI, Cul de sacs and differentiation

2011-10-29 Thread Nick Prince
On Oct 29, 1:53 pm, Stathis Papaioannou wrote: > On Oct 26, 2011, at 10:00 AM, Nick Prince > wrote: > > > QTI, Cul de sacs and differentiation > > > I’m trying to get a  picture of how David Deutsch’s idea of > > differentiation works – especially in relatio

Re: QTI, Cul de sacs and differentiation

2011-10-29 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
On Oct 26, 2011, at 10:00 AM, Nick Prince wrote: > QTI, Cul de sacs and differentiation > > I’m trying to get a picture of how David Deutsch’s idea of > differentiation works – especially in relation to QTI. With a > standard treatment it looks as if there might be cul de sacs

Re: QTI, Cul de sacs and differentiation

2011-10-28 Thread Nick Prince
Thanks Bruno for being so patient with me and taking the time to carefully answer my queries. Nick On Oct 28, 3:42 pm, Bruno Marchal wrote: > On 28 Oct 2011, at 01:56, Nick Prince wrote: > > > > > [BM] > > The QTI, or the more general comp immortality, or arithmeti

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