Bruno Marchal writes:
> Le 07-sept.-06, à 03:19, Stathis Papaioannou a écrit :
>
> > Why do you disagree that one of the bitstrings is conscious? It seems
> > to
> > me that "the subcollection of bitstrings that corresponds to the
> > actions of
> > a program emulating a person under all possible inputs" is a
> > collection of
> > multiple individually conscious entities, each of which would be just
> > as
> > conscious if all the others were wiped out.
>
> To be clear I agree on this.
> But we have to keep in mind that the wiping out of the others will
> change the probabilities of what you can be conscious about. This lead
> to the measure problem and the rise of physics from comp.
OK. I should also add for completeness that if all computations are necessarily
implemented in Platonia, you can't wipe them out, not even with nuclear weapons.
Stathis Papaioannou
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Received on Sat Sep 09 2006 - 00:54:16 PDT