--- rwas rwas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I had proposed an experiment very similar to a
> friend
> some years back concerning identity and
> consciousness.
>
> We start with a machine that can download, upload,
> and
> run consciousness. It can also manipulate the
> functioning of the brain of
Wei Dai wrote:
>Consider the following thought experiment.
>
>Two volunteers who don't know each other, Alice and Bob, are given
>temporary amnesia and placed in identical virtual environments. They are
>then both presented with three buttons and told the following:
>
>If you push 1, you will lo
I don't see a paradox here. In the latter situations, the volunteers
are acting in accordance with different information, ie that of their
measures. If they were not aware of their measures, they would have to
assume a 50/50 chance of being A or B, hence would choose button 1.
Wei Dai wrote:
> The paradox is what happens if we run Alice and Bob's minds on different
> substrates, so that Bob's mind has a much higher measure than Alice's.
I fail to understand the paradox. In the case where they are on the same
substrate, they are more likely to push button 2. OK
In th
Wei writes:
> If you don't think this is paradoxical, suppose we repeat the choice but
> with the payoffs for button 2 reversed, so that Bob wins $10 instead of
> Alice, and we also swap the two minds so that Alice is running on the
> substrate that generates more measure instead of Bob. They'll a
Consider the following thought experiment.
Two volunteers who don't know each other, Alice and Bob, are given
temporary amnesia and placed in identical virtual environments. They are
then both presented with three buttons and told the following:
If you push 1, you will lose $9
If you push 2 and
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