On 08 Sep 2012, at 16:08, benjayk wrote:
Bruno Marchal wrote:
On 07 Sep 2012, at 14:22, benjayk wrote:
Bruno Marchal wrote:
On 06 Sep 2012, at 13:31, benjayk wrote:
Quantum effects beyond individual brains (suggested by psi)
can't be
computed as well: No matter what I compute in my brain, this
doesn't
entangle it with other brains since computation is classical.
The UD emulates all quantum computer, as they do not violate Church
Thesis.
I am not talking about quantum computers, which are not entangled
with their
surroundings.
I am talking about systems that are entangled to other systems.
This is just lowering the comp level of substitution. It does not
change the reasoning, thanks to the use of the notion of "generalized
brain".
It does, because you can't simulate indefinite entanglement. No
matter how
many entangled systems you simulate, you are always missing the
entanglement
of this combined system to another (which may be as crucial as the
system
itself, because it may lead to a very different unfoldment of events).
To use this argument, you need to postulate that the physical universe
exists and is describe by a quantum garden of Eden, that is a infinite
quantum pattern, and that *you* are that pattern.
In that case, you are just working in a different theory than the comp
theory, and are out of the scope of my expertize. But then develop
your theory.
A practically digital substitution (which is assumed in COMP) could be
entangled with its surroundings, which may be very different than the
entanglement of a brain (or a generalized brain) with its
surroundings. The
substitution may not only fail because the person itself is not
preserved,
but also because the world was not preserved (the person would
certainly
complain to the doctor if the world suddenly is substantially
different - if
there is still a doctor left, that is).
And if you say that we can simulate this entanglement as well, the
entanglement of this system to outside systems may again lead to the
emulation to be not correct at all from a broader view (etc...). At
every
step the emulation may actually become more false, because more of the
multiverse/universe is changed.
We can argue that all these things may not be relevant (though I
think they
are), but in any case it makes the reasoning shaky.
Not at all. You might say arithmetic is false as it postulate that 0
has no predecessor, and we all know that 0 has a predecessor, namely -1.
But then you are not working in arithmetic, but in the theory of
integers.
It is like being upset on an ophthalmologist because he cannot cure
your toothache.
Bruno Marchal wrote:
No matter how good your simulation is, it is never going to change
its
surroundings without using I/O.
QM does not allows this, unless you bring by the collapse of the
wave.
Clearly QM does allow that measurement in one object "changes" another
object (we can argue with the word "change", because the effect is
non-causal). This is even experimentally verified.
MW doesn't change this, it is the same with regards to correlations
between
classically non-interacting objects.
Actually what you say is not correct, but is also out of my topics,
as QM is not assumed in the comp theory, but has to be retrieved from
it, if correct.
Bruno
http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/
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