Quentin Anciaux wrote:
>
>
> 2009/2/11 Jesse Mazer <lasermazer.domain.name.hidden
> <mailto:lasermazer.domain.name.hidden>>
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> Brent Meeker wrote:
> >
> > Indeed there seems to be a conflict between MWI of QM and the
> feeling of
> > consciousness. QM evolves unitarily to preserve total
> probability, which
> > implies that the splitting into different quasi-classical
> subspaces reduces the
> > measure of each subspace. But there's no perceptible diminishment of
> > consciousness. I think this is consistent with the idea that
> consciousness is a
> > computation, since in that case the computation either exists or
> it doesn't.
> > Two copies don't increase the measure of a computation and
> reducing it's vector
> > in Hilbert space doesn't diminish it.
>
> But why should less measure imply a "diminishment of consciousness"?
> Measure is not intended to have anything to do with how a given
> observer or observer-moment feels subjectively at a given instant,
> just how *likely* that experience is. If I win the lottery I don't
> feel my consciousness diminish, for example.
> Jesse
>
>
> Hence measure cannot be an argument againt QI...
I guess that depends on what you care about.
Brent
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