2015-03-26 12:13 GMT+01:00 Bruce Kellett <bhkell...@optusnet.com.au>:
> Quentin Anciaux wrote: > >> 2015-03-26 8:05 GMT+01:00 Bruce Kellett <bhkell...@optusnet.com.au >> <mailto:bhkell...@optusnet.com.au>>: >> >> This comes back to my original question: since all possible programs >> are run by the dovetailer, how do we ensure that conscious beings >> see an ordered and predictable world. Only a set of measure zero >> among all possible programs would give that result. >> >> Yes, it seems to me, we should see white noise, but maybe a selection >> attribute must be in play... like an anthropic argument. >> > > Anthropic arguments are not going to work with computationalism because > there is no basis on which you can assume underlying deterministic physical > laws. > > It seems to me it works relatively.... consciousness like ours can only experiment worls ordered like ours... even if almost all dreams/worlds produced by mathematics are not like that and do not allow of consciousness like ours, as you can only experience worlds like ours, it's no magic that you do... like with Quantum Immortality, you cannot experience being dead, so no wonder you find yourself alive, even if in almost all worlds you're dead (or not existing at all). Quentin > > Bruce > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. (Roy Batty/Rutger Hauer) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
