I read the Wikipedia of "The prestige" (too lazy to watch the movie ;-)
and, yes, it's classical comp stuff *grin*
What I would like to recommend to everybody on the list is Greg Egan's book
Permutation City
I can recommend everything by Egan - hard, no nonsense, mathematically
informed SciFi (his page is here:
http://gregegan.customer.netspace.net.au/
he has good applets on his page also, check them out)
In Permutation City, he explores personality duplication, platonic
computation, "dust theory" of consciousness etc - an excellent,
breathtaking book. Will transform your views, even if you have been
thinking about these things for a long time.
Cheers,
Günther
Bruno Marchal wrote:
>
> Le 16-avr.-08, à 15:13, nichomachus (Steve) a écrit :
>
>> The Prestige, with Christian Bale, Hugh Jackman, Michael Caine, Andy
>> Serkis.... and David Bowie as Nikola Tesla... I also highly recommend
>> this very entertaining movie that I saw last week.
>>
>> Unfortunately, Bruno, I don't see the connection between this film and
>> the computationalist hypothesis.
>
>
> Hmmm.... I don't want to spoil the movie either ... Have you study the
> Universal Dovetailer Argument, or just the third key step?
>
> Note that from a purely strict logical point of view you don't need
> comp but a weakening of it. But the comp hyp makes something (in the
> movie) possible and even "real", and even already "real" in a sense
> made explicit in the movie.
>
> Perhaps I will say more later, when more people (of the list) will have
> seen the movie.
>
> Bruno
>
>
>
> http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/
>
>
> >
>
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