RE: Conditional probability & continuity of consciousness (was:

2001-09-08 Thread Marchal
Jesse Mazer wrote: >I don't really think there's some "other metaphysical realm" where we get >dropped from, but I do think that, as an analogy, the spotlight one is not >actually so bad. After all, if you think that you just *are* your current >observer-moment, how can you possibly become any

RE: Conditional probability & continuity of consciousness (was: Re: FIN Again)

2001-09-06 Thread Charles Goodwin
> -Original Message- > From: Jacques Mallah [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > The appeal of that kind of model is based on the illusion that we can > remember past experiences. We can't remember past experiences at all, > actually. We only experience "memory" because of the _current_ wa

RE: Conditional probability & continuity of consciousness (was:

2001-09-06 Thread Charles Goodwin
> -Original Message- > From: Jesse Mazer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, 7 September 2001 6:39 a.m. > Hmm, I think we actually have a full spectrum of opinions here...Jacques > believes only in absolute probability, Bruno believes only in conditional > probabilities, and I beli

Re: Conditional probability & continuity of consciousness (was: Re: FIN Again)

2001-09-06 Thread Jacques Mallah
>From: "Jesse Mazer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>From: "Jacques Mallah" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>"You" is just a matter of definition. As for the conditional >>effective probability of an observation with characteristics A given that >>it includes characteristics B, p(A|B), that is automatically def

RE: Conditional probability & continuity of consciousness (was:

2001-09-06 Thread Jesse Mazer
>From: Marchal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: RE: Conditional probability & continuity of consciousness (was: >Date: Jeu, 6 Sep 01 10:53:17 +0100 > >Charles Goodwin wrote: > > > >I don't see how you can talk about the &q

RE: Conditional probability & continuity of consciousness (was:

2001-09-06 Thread Marchal
Charles Goodwin wrote >> From: Jesse Mazer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >> >> Well, I hope you'd agree that which observer-moment I am >> right now is not a >> "matter of definition," but a matter of fact. My opinion is >> that the global >> measure on all observer-moments is not telling us somethi

RE: Conditional probability & continuity of consciousness (was: Re: FIN Again)

2001-09-05 Thread Charles Goodwin
> -Original Message- > From: Jesse Mazer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Well, I hope you'd agree that which observer-moment I am > right now is not a > "matter of definition," but a matter of fact. My opinion is > that the global > measure on all observer-moments is not telling us somethin