On 20/09/2007, "Hal Finney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The lifetime formulation also captures the intuition many people have > that consciousness should not "jump around" as observer moments are > created in the various simulations and scenarios we imagine in our > thought experiments. That was the conclusion I reached in the posting > referenced above, that teleportation might in some sense "not work" > even though someone walks out of the machine thousands of miles away > who remembers walking into it. The measure of such a lifetime would be > substantially less than that of a similar person who never teleports.
I have great conceptual difficulty with this idea. It seems to allow that I could have died five minutes ago even though I still feel that I am alive now. (This is OK with me because I think the best way to look at ordinary life is as a series of transiently existing OM's which create an illusion of a self persisting through time, but I don't think this is what you were referring to.) -- Stathis Papaioannou --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
