Re: Some comments

From: <hal.domain.name.hidden>
Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 07:40:12 -0700

Gilles HENRI <Gilles.Henri.domain.name.hidden> writes:
> My claim is that a conscious computation is so tightly (and non-linearly)
> linked to the environment that it will diverge from another computation
> very quickly, as soon as this interaction really takes place.

What if you are uploaded into a simulation which includes an environment?
The movie, The Matrix, recently released in the U.S. has a whole society
living in such a world. (They are using brains but the same principle
would apply if their minds were executing on computers.)

If my brain can be simulated on a computer, it can provide me with a
simulated environment as well. Does that count as "the environment"
for your purposes? Or do you need to go outside the computer for that?

Hal
Received on Mon May 10 1999 - 07:42:42 PDT