Re: One solution to the Measure Problem: UTM outputs a qualia, not a universe

From: Stathis Papaioannou <stathisp.domain.name.hidden>
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 11:00:02 +1000

On 21/09/2007, "Hal Finney" <hal.domain.name.hidden> wrote:

> As far as functionalism, I agree that this kind of analysis argues
> against it. Indeed the post from Wei Dai which introduced this concept,
> which I quote here, http://www.udassa.com/origins.html (apologies for the
> incompleteness of this web site), suggests that the size of a computer
> would affect measure, contradicting functionalism.

How does this contradict functionalism? Functionalism needs to be true
in order for the computer program to be conscious in the first place.

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Stathis Papaioannou
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