2009/2/11 Jesse Mazer <laserma...@hotmail.com> > > > 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
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