Re: Boltzmann Brains, consciousness and the arrow of time

From: Günther Greindl <guenther.greindl.domain.name.hidden>
Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2009 14:28:10 +0100

Hi Bruno,

> I don't understand what you mean by computations being infinitely far
> away. In the UD deployment, which I will wrote UD*, all computations
> begins soon or later (like all dominoes falls soon or later in the
> infinite discrete dominoe-sequences). All computations reach any of
> their relative computational state soon or later always after the UD
> makes a finite number of steps.
snip
> Hmmm... The phrasing "reconstitution at infinity" does not make sense,
> I think. All reconstitutions are done after a finite number of steps
> of the UD. But you are right that for (the third person description)
> of the first person probable experience we have to take into account
> the infinite union of the computations going through the relevant
> state. The reals appears here and now, because they are generated at
> the limit, as a infinite union of finite computations, or finite
> pieces of infinite computations.
snip
> OK. But it is the union which is infinite. The reconstitution can be
> numbered (by a God).

Yes, I see we agree - my fault. I meant the infinite union of
computations - maybe "rec. at infinity" was a bit dramatic way of
speaking - the way you put it is clearer.

Cheers,
Günther

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