On 14 Aug, 13:15, "Stathis Papaioannou" <stath....domain.name.hidden> wrote:
> 2008/8/14 Brent Meeker <meeke....domain.name.hidden>:
>
> > In principle we could create and artificial environment for two copies of the AI
> > and keep them identical. But then it's a metaphysical question as to whether
> > there are two separate consciousness. If consciousness is computation then
> > "same computation"="same consciousness". The usual form of duplication that
> > Bruno postulates contemplates two copies at separate places in this world - in
> > which case they do diverge immediately.
>
> This interesting question is considered in the following paper:
>
> http://www.nickbostrom.com/papers/experience.pdf
Thanks for the link
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Received on Thu Aug 14 2008 - 16:38:11 PDT