Re: Memory erasure

2005-05-02 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
Saibal Mitra wrote: If you accept that you can experience having been unconscious, then you also have to accept that you can survive with memory loss in any branch. Yes, you can survive with memory loss in any branch. Whether it is *you* that survives is another question, a problem in the philoso

Re: Memory erasure

2005-05-02 Thread Saibal Mitra
If you accept that you can experience having been unconscious, then you also have to accept that you can survive with memory loss in any branch. This means that if you are faced with almost certain death, it is more likely that you will find yourself alive in a completely different sector of the m

Re: Memory erasure

2005-05-01 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
Hal Finney wrote: Arguing against this is that every night you fall asleep, a similar loss of consciousness (often with memory erasure of the last few thoughts before sleep). This theory would predict that each night you only experience universes where, for whatever reason, you never again lose con

Re: Memory erasure

2005-05-01 Thread Saibal Mitra
- Oorspronkelijk bericht - Van: ""Hal Finney"" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Aan: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: Verzonden: Sunday, May 01, 2005 07:30 PM Onderwerp: Re: Memory erasure > You can turn this whole chain of logic around an

Re: Memory erasure

2005-05-01 Thread "Hal Finney"
Saibal Mitra writes: > Although (quantum) suicide experiments can never be successful, memory > erasure could still work. Suppose you are an artifically intelligent > machine and you can erase any part of your memory. One day you receive > news that an asteroid is on its way to earth which will com