Stathis Papaioannou wrote:
> 2009/1/10 Brent Meeker <meekerdb.domain.name.hidden>:
>
>
>> The question is how is the simulated observer made conscious of the passage of
>> (simulated) time. If you just look a momentary machine states, ignoring their
>> causal/temporal relations, how will they create the consciousness of time in the
>> simulated observer?
>>
>
> Are you suggesting that the observer would be conscious of the passage
> of time through two consecutive machine states, s1 and s2, running on
> the one machine m1, but not if s1 is run on m1 (which is then stopped)
> and s2 run on a separate machine m2?
>
>
>
I'm suggesting that "running a state" is incoherent.
Brent
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Received on Sun Jan 11 2009 - 02:00:43 PST