On 7/12/2021 2:44 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote:
On 10 Jul 2021, at 21:45, 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List
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On 7/10/2021 1:48 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote:
On 6 Jul 2021, at 16:45, Tomas Pales <litewav...@gmail.com
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On Tuesday, July 6, 2021 at 10:28:11 AM UTC+2 Bruno Marchal wrote:
On 3 Jul 2021, at 14:13, Tomas Pales <litew...@gmail.com> wrote:
Can't there be a machine that computes gravitational
interaction with gravitational constant 6.674 x 10 to the -11
up until some time t and then continues the computation with
gravitational constant 5 x 10 to the -11, or just halts? That
would be an instability or cessation of gravitational law.
Yes, and that exists, but such world will have a very low
probability to be accessed by any observer, due to the fact
that, below our mechanist substitution level, all such theories
intervene.
How low is this probability? Is it maybe as low as the probability
that my whole body quantum-tunnels through a wall?
Yes.
What does it mean that "below our mechanist substitution level, all
such theories intervene”?
If your consciousness does not require some details: like the
position of an electron of some atom in some neurotransmitter (say),
then it will be associate as much with your brain and that election
here, and with you brain and that electron there, and if you don’t
measure the position of that electron, the two histories can
interfere statistically.
What would it mean to measure the state of your own brain?
To encode the relevant information such that I survive the
copy/reconstitution. The possibility of this is assumed in the YD part
of the YD+CT.
YD = “Yes doctor”, and CT = Church’s Thesis (or Church-Turing’s thesis).
I understand that is what it means for the state of your brain to be
measured...but in what sense do *you *measure it. Can you look at the
instruments and say, "I see what I am thinking"?
Brent
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