Stathis Papaioannou wrote:
> Peter Jones writes:
>
> > > Is it possible that we are currently actors in a single, deterministic, non-branching
> > > computer program, with the illusion of free will and if-then contingency in general
> > > being due to the fact that we don't know the details of how the program will play
> > > out?
> >
> > Lots of things are possible. The question is what to believe.
>
> True, but I thought you were saying that such a thing was incompatible with consciousness,
> and I see no reason to believe that.
There are a lot of prolems with what you are saying.
I don't think it is possible to get dynamism out of stasis,
and I don't think it is possible to get qualia out of mathematical
structues
Oh, and "Non-branching programme" is close to being a cotnradiction in
terms.
>You could replace "computer program" with "machine"
> and have a description of the universe.
Really ? What would "machine" mean in that sentence ?
And according to which theory of physics ?
> Actually, you could leave out "non-branching" as well:
> the MWI is branching but deterministic, and still leaves room for first person indeterminacy.
There are problems with MWI as a purely physical theory.
> Stathis Papaioannou
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Received on Sun Aug 20 2006 - 08:04:39 PDT