Re: Bruno's argument

From: Russell Standish <r.standish.domain.name.hidden>
Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2006 23:04:40 +1000

I think if you stack all possible recordings together in the way you
suggest, connected in such as way as to be indistinguishable from a
computation occuring with all its counterfactuals in the Multiverse,
then what you have is a computation.

Cheers

On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 02:55:18PM +1000, Stathis Papaioannou wrote:
>
> Russell Standish writes:
>
> > In the Multiverse, there is a huge difference between a recording and
> > the actual computation. Only in one single universe (or history) of
> > the ensemble do the two coincide.
> >
> > The "recording is a computation" issue is only a problem for single
> > universe theory IMHO.
>
> Do you mean that the recording is static while the computation branches
> out in the MV? Couldn't we also say that all possible related recordings exist
> somewhere in the multiverse, giving just as broad a variety of putative
> computations as the conventional computer? In any case, even if the
> recording is confined to a single universe while the computation roams all
> over the ensemble, does that necessarily say anything about whether the
> recording can be conscious?
>
> Stathis Papaioannou
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