On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 02:31:35PM +0200, Bruno Marchal wrote:
>
>
> I can believe a UD with 5 lines of Prolog. Five lines of Fortran? Send
> us the code.
>
Again perhaps I confuse actual execution of the code (dovetailing)
with the generation of the code. No matter, it is not important.
>
> No of course. Only people or person can be conscious. Person can be
> attached to program, and person's live can be attached to computations.
> But "attachment" is not identity.
>
But is it supervenience?
>
> You loss me. If you are still complaining about an inoperable disease
> in reality B, it means you did survive.
>
Perhaps, but the doctor was unsuccessful in curing the
disease. Nevertheless, it is a digression from your main argument.
>
>
> >
> > I can also never experience your famous Washinton-Moscow teleportation
> > excercise - in reality B I am still stuck in Brussels.
>
>
> But in the WM protocol (step 3 of the 8 steps version of UDA, cf SANE
> paper) you are supposed to be annihilated in Brussels. Are you telling
> you are just dying in Brussels, in that situation. Well, that would
> mean you assume some non comp hyp. It would be nice if you could sum up
> your most basic assumptions.
>
This is what is incompatible with "lowest level of COMP
substitution". The WM protocol can be achieved if what is being copied
is smaller than the world containing W,M & B. Then you simply arrange
for the copies to placed at W and M, and the copy at B to be
destroyed. However, if copying requires the copying of everything,
including W,M and B, then how is this protocol possible without an
additional assumption (namely the ability to "edit" reality).
If you were to say that computationalism means a level of substitution
somewhere above the whole of "reality", then I would be happy, and a
whole lot less confused (for concreteness I'm
effectively identifying "reality" as the Multiverse, but there is a whole
raft of additional assumptions in this that would digress us too much,
so please keep "reality" as somewhat loosely defined).
Cheers
--
*PS: A number of people ask me about the attachment to my email, which
is of type "application/pgp-signature". Don't worry, it is not a
virus. It is an electronic signature, that may be used to verify this
email came from me if you have PGP or GPG installed. Otherwise, you
may safely ignore this attachment.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
A/Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile)
Mathematics
UNSW SYDNEY 2052 R.Standish.domain.name.hidden
Australia http://parallel.hpc.unsw.edu.au/rks
International prefix +612, Interstate prefix 02
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
--~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group.
To post to this group, send email to everything-list.domain.name.hidden
To unsubscribe from this group, send email to everything-list-unsubscribe.domain.name.hidden
For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list
-~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
Received on Sat Sep 09 2006 - 03:04:40 PDT