Quentin Anciaux wrote: > > > 2009/2/11 Jesse Mazer <laserma...@hotmail.com > <mailto: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 > > > Hence measure cannot be an argument againt QI...
I guess that depends on what you care about. 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
