Le 01-juil.-06, à 19:35, Brent Meeker a écrit :
> That's not contrary to my conception at all. I certainly do "bet" on
> the existence of others, and
> of chairs and tables and stars and electrons and myself, and all for
> the essentially the same reasons.
OK.
>
> I don't understand the conjunction of "necessarily" and
> "serendipitous".
It can be proved that if I am a self-referentially correct machine then
I cannot know which machine I am.
So if the doctor *guaranties* that I will survive the digital graft at
the substitution level he has chosen, then I'l better run ... (if I
can).
Bruno
http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/
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Received on Sun Jul 02 2006 - 09:44:29 PDT