On 10/07/2017 9:34 pm, Bruno Marchal wrote:
On 10 Jul 2017, at 03:41, Bruce Kellett wrote:
On 7/07/2017 7:19 pm, Bruno Marchal wrote:
On 07 Jul 2017, at 01:52, Bruce Kellett wrote:
On 7/07/2017 12:50 am, Bruno Marchal wrote:
On 06 Jul 2017, at 14:22, Bruce Kellett wrote:
On 6/07/2017 5:55 pm, Russell Standish wrote:
And assuming conscious classic digital machines, quantum
phenomenology
appears at the observed level - a result in line with Bruno
Marchal's
FPI result.
Prove it. Bruno has failed to do so -- his person duplication
thought experiments do not reproduce quantum behaviour.
Which one? Z1*, X1*, or S4Grz1? If you know about a physical facts
contradicting those theories, I would be pleased to know. The
person duplication experience just shows that physics is given by
a "sum" on all computations, seen from internal points of view
imposed by incompleteness, and until now, as modest as the results
can be, the three propositional physics are still not refuted. I
am not sure you have studied them, because you have shown not
knowing the basic theories needed to apprehend them, so it looks
you are just inventing something here.
The point that I was trying to make to Russell was the fact that
purely classical machines can exhibit consciousness means that you
cannot derive quantum mechanics from consciousness alone.
That depends on your assumptions. If my consciousness, or my 1p
experience are invariant for a physical digital substitution, in
virtue of computing, then there is just no choice in the matter.
Let me spell out the argument more clearly. If consciousness implies
that the world is quantum mechanical (one can derive quantum
mechanics from the existence of observer moments), then it follows
that consciousness is not possible in a non-quantum world (modus
tollens). But a Turing machine is not a quantum device;
OK. It is an arithmetical entity.
it could exist in a non-quantum world
Indeed, at least seen from outside, in the 0p view. OK.
and exhibit consciousness (given the appropriate computations), so
something has to give -- either the derivation of the quantum from
the existence of consciousness, or digital substitution of
consciousness (substrate independence). Take your pick.
The machine "lives", or "exists" in the arithmetical reality, in the
eyes of god (in the 3p absolute view, or in the 0p view), but from its
first personal perspective (1p view) it lives provably in a quantum
reality. Then we can test if the quantum reality of the machine
violates or not the quantum that we infer from nature.
You must not identify: "the machine is in arithmetic", with the
machine's point of view access only a quantum reality (the reality of
all computations going through its current states, below its
substitution . We need to always make clear which pov we are talking
about. The UDA showed that the physical is 1p plural statistical. It
is not a 3p view.
I don't think it is that simple. If we have substrate independence, the
machine (the conscious person) cannot tell what substrate is supporting
the computations, whether arithmetic, a quantum world, or a classical
Newtonian world. That would seem to imply that mere consideration of
conscious observer moments cannot distinguish between these. Or else you
feel the full force of the conundrum enunciated above: if observer
moments imply a quantum reality, then the machine can indeed determine
its substrate, and substrate independence is lost.
Bruce
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