Brent Meeker 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.
But why should less measure imply a "diminishment of consciousness"? Measure is not intended to have anything to do with how a given observer or observer-moment feels subjectively at a given instant, just how *likely* that experience is. If I win the lottery I don't feel my consciousness diminish, for example. Jesse --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
