Stathis Papaioannou wrote: > 2009/1/10 Brent Meeker <meeke...@dslextreme.com>: > >>> Consider a simulation of an observer watching a falling stone, running >>> on a digital computer. Does the observer have any way of knowing >>> whether the simulation is being run serially, in parallel, on how many >>> and what kinds of physical machines, at what speed, or in what order? >>> >>> >> Is the observer conscious of a passage to time? > > Yes,but of course it won't be real or external time of which he will > be conscious. In a block universe, there isn't necessarily any real or > external time. Whether you call the internal time of the simulation or > block universe "real" is a matter of taste. >
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? Brent --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to everything-l...@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
