Re: What Computationalism is and what it is *not*

From: Bruno Marchal <marchal.domain.name.hidden>
Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2005 16:53:54 +0200

On 07 Sep 2005, at 06:50, Lee Corbin wrote:


> Not sure I entirely understand, but it seems to me that we survive in
> "Harry potter like universes", but only get very little runtime there
> (i.e. have very low measure in those).


What happens is that when you survive in a "Harry Potter like
Universe", it will behave like such only a very little "runtime", so
that you will survive on the normal extension of the Harry Potter
Universe.
The harry Potter Universe have Normal extension. What is *very
unlikely* is to *stay* in a "Harry Potter universe" which *remains*
an "Harry Potter universe".

For the computationalist who has already understand UDA (to be
careful) it is obvious that the first person death problem is the
most difficult problem we could imagine. We don't know, but assuming
comp, we can begin to evaluate the difficulty, at least.

Bruno



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