On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 Bruce Kellett <bhkell...@optusnet.com.au> wrote:
> >> Right. Like AI's in separate but identical worlds. >> > > > Don't you then run into the problem of the identity of indiscernibles? Yes exactly, that idea of Leibniz has proved to be amazingly useful. If you exchanged the position of the 2 AI's nothing in either world would notice any difference because the AI's are identical, and the AI's themselves would notice no difference because the worlds are identical. So if subjectively it make no difference and objectively it makes no difference I think it's safe to say there is no difference. So there may be 2 identical computers running the same AI program but there is only one AI individual, and if you destroyed one computer the AI individual would not die, he wouldn't even notice anything had changed. If 2 phonographs are playing the same symphony and you destroy one machine the music would not stop. John K Clark -- 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.
