--- On Wed, 2/11/09, Brent Meeker <meeke...@dslextreme.com> 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.
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