Re: QTI, SSI (fwd)

From: Russell Standish <R.Standish.domain.name.hidden>
Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 09:00:24 +1000 (EST)

>
> I would like to add this "exercice": Show that for any running program
> there is aleph-one never stopping possible continuations and only aleph-
> zero possible stopping continuations. That is why immortality is more
> probable than mortality.
>
> Bruno.
>

You seem to be implying that death states are of measure zero compared
with living states. Experience would contradict this. Maybe your
exercise disproves equivalence between computational processes and
conciousness.

                                        Cheers


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