Re: That stupid diary

2016-08-09 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
On 9 August 2016 at 03:27, John Clark  wrote:

​And as I've explained several times MWI does NOT have the same problem.
Before *you* perform the 2 slit experiment it would NOT be gibberish to ask*
you* "After the experiment what do *you* expect to see?", because both
before and after the experiment the meaning of the personal pronoun "*you*"
is crystal clear unique and unambiguous, "*you*" is the only chunk of
matter in the observable universe that behaves in a Telmomenezesian way.
And because things are stated so clearly
​ ​
after it's all over we can check and see if the prediction *you* made about
*you* turned out to be correct or not; it might have been right and it
might have been wrong but it wasn't gibberish.

It's entirely different with a duplicating machine,  "What one and only one
city will *you* see after *you* are duplicated?"  is just words with a
question mark at the end and is not a question because after "*you*" is
duplicated there would be 2 chunks of matter
that behaves in a Telmomenezesian way
​.​



The distinction you insist on seems arbitrary. Whether the two versions of
you can meet or not, there are still two versions of you.


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Re: "We spent a long time trying to convince ourselves this wasn’t real"

2016-08-09 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Tue, Aug 9, 2016 at 1:49 AM, John Clark  wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 7, 2016 spudboy100 via Everything List
>  wrote:
>
>> >
>> What do you feel would be the reaction of our species if magically, it
>> gets determined that it is indeed Dyson builders?
>
>
> It would be a very odd star system for the Evolution of Dyson builders to
> evolve on. The star has 1.43 times the mass of our sun and a star's lifetime
> is inversely proportional to the cube of its mass, so that star's lifetime
> would only be about a third of the sun's. The sun and the Earth are about
> the same age, 4 and a half billion years, and in another half a billion
> years the sun will be too hot for life on Earth. So the sun can provide
> about 5 billion year window for intelligent life to evolve. On Earth it took
> 4 billion years to go from chemicals to worms and another half a billion
> years to go from worms to present day people.
> The star you're talking about would only have a 1.6 billion year window for
> life, and that doesn't seem like enough time
> for Evolution
> to
> turn chemicals into
> Dyson
> builders
> . If you were on the Earth when the sun was
> only
> 1.6 billion years old you'd have to wait another 2.4 billion years to see
> the first worm.
>
> We only have one example to look at so maybe life on Earth evolved unusually
> slowly but I think it much more likely that life on Earth evolved unusually
> rapidly, because Earth not only produced life it produced intelligent life.
> And however common intelligence is in the universe bacteria must be even
> more common.

Those are all good points, but it is not necessary that the Dyson
builders are native of the star where they are building a certain
sphere, right?

Of course it is still much more reasonable to assume that this is just
some unknown natural phenomena, but it is exciting that there is a
small possibility that it is not.

If they do exist, I agree with a point you made some time ago that
they would probably not need anything from us or our planet, and thus
not represent a threat. I guess the only possible reason why such an
advanced civilization could be interested in us would be scientific
curiosity.

Telmo.

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Re: Holiday Exercise

2016-08-09 Thread Bruno Marchal


On 09 Aug 2016, at 01:15, Bruce Kellett wrote:


On 9/08/2016 12:39 am, Bruno Marchal wrote:

On 08 Aug 2016, at 01:26, Bruce Kellett wrote:
On 8/08/2016 1:30 am, Bruno Marchal wrote:


But in step 3, I ma very careful to not use the notion of  
"consciousness", and instead a simple 3p notion of first person.  
usually many relates it two consciousness and assumes that when  
the guy say "I see Moscow", they are conscious, but that is not  
needed to get the reversal.


Maybe that is the basis of the problem. In step 3 you seem to be  
claiming nothing that could not be achieved by a non-conscious  
machine:


Yes.

take a machine that can take photographs and compare the resulting  
images with a data base of images of certain cities. When a match  
is found, the machine outputs the corresponding name of the city  
from the data base. Send one such machine to Washington and an  
identical machine to Moscow. They will fulfill your requirements,  
the W-machine will output W and the M-machine will output M.


This is what you are now seeming to describe. But that is not FPI.


How could the machine predict the result of the match? Give me the  
algorithm used by that machine.


The machine program knows the protocol -- it knows that one copy  
will be transported to M and one to W. The machines are already  
physically different (different locations if nothing else), so it is  
a matter of a coin toss as to which goes where. The machines do not,  
however, share a consciousness, so this does not answer what will  
happen with a conscious being.


You forget that we assume comp. So we are machine ourselves, and so,  
for the first person points of view, it is indeed like tossing a coin,  
and that's the FPI.


Consciousness is treated later. For the reversal, only the notion of  
knowledge and/or first person is enough.





Otherwise your prediction is no different from predicting the  
outcome of a coin toss. Think of one machine, it will be unaware of  
the other, if it knows that it will go to either W or M on the  
result of a coin toss... prediction, 50/50. (But if the machine  
doesn't have the protocol programmed in, it will simply answer:  
"What?")



You make my point. Just apply computationalism.





The "P" in the acronym stands for "person", and if the "person" is  
not conscious, it is a zombie and any output you get has no  
bearing on what will happen to conscious persons.


The problem is a problem of prediction of future first person  
account.


That is a problem only if you have a person -- a conscious being.


Not at all. You forget we *assume* computationalism. Without the  
reconstitution in W, we have already agreed that P(M) = 1, and vice- 
versa, so that the guy's consciousness is linked to its first person  
experience in the usual way. So all you need is to assume that when  
you teleported on Mars, seeing Mars is a (personal) confirmation of  
your survival. Your consciousness and identity remains invariant by  
definition of computationalism. We agreed that both copies are genuine  
survivor of the duplication experience, and computationalism does not  
make them able to share consciousness "here-and-now". They share only  
the (non transitive) personal identity, that the memory of who they  
are (here: the guy who was in Helsinki and pushed on the button).



Bruno






Bruce

The zombie machines will probably not be aware of each other, but  
from that you cannot conclude that the conscious persons will not  
be aware of each other, or that consciousness necessarily  
differentiates on different inputs.


Well, you need the inputs being enough different (like seeing W,  
resp. M) so that the machine can take notice of the difference, and  
write distinct outcome in the diary, of course.


Bruno


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Re: Holiday Exercise

2016-08-09 Thread Bruno Marchal


On 09 Aug 2016, at 01:37, Bruce Kellett wrote:


On 9/08/2016 9:05 am, Russell Standish wrote:

On Mon, Aug 08, 2016 at 10:01:49AM -0700, Brent Meeker wrote:

I think Russell is just saying we take it as an added
axiom/assumption that the duplicated brain/bodies must have separate
consciousnesses at least as soon as they have different perceptions.
This is exactly what you would predict from supposing that
consciousness is a product of physical processes in the brain -
something that is supported by lots and lots of evidence.

I don't think this does much to invalidate Bruno's argument.  He
just wants to show that the physical is derivative, not that it's
irrelevant.

Brent

Physicality in the thought experiment seems like a red herring to
me. We can just as easily consider running the duplicated
consciousnesses in virtual reality simulators of the two cities.


You would still have to build into your simulation whether or not  
the consciousness differentiates -- begging the question yet again.


Of course, not for the same reason. Once the program are duplicated  
virtually in different virtual environment, very elementary computer  
science justifies why their memories and first person records diverge.


No need to invoke consciousness at this stage, which is a subtle  
concept in need of explanation itself. But of course, computationalism  
is the doctrine that we can *associate* some consciousness of the  
first person experience to the first person account made by machine  
and humans, duplicated or not.


Maybe you are just arguing against computationalism, but then we have  
changed the topic without saying. I am agnostic, that is indeed why  
motivates me for testing it, or test some version of it. The interest  
in computationalism stems from its testable character.


you have not answered many questions I asked you, which were suppose  
to show that the differentiation of consciousness is unvaoidable, once  
we assume computationalism, and are OK that our children marry people  
having a digital brain.


Bruno





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Re: That stupid diary

2016-08-09 Thread Bruno Marchal


On 08 Aug 2016, at 19:27, John Clark wrote:


On Sun, Aug 7, 2016 Telmo Menezes  wrote:

>​>​ Is this really that difficult to comprehend? If  
computationalism is true​ ​then the machine will be able to make  
2 copies that are identical to each other in every way and will  
remain identical until the outside environment​ or perhaps random  
quantum variations changes one but not the other.


​> ​I agree and never argued the opposite.

​I'm glad to hear we agree on that, then we both disagree with  
Bruno because Bruno said:​


"Nothing can duplicate a first person view from its first person  
point of view, with or without computationalism."


​I think that is the key to Bruno's confusion; that and trying to  
establish personal identity by looking from the present to the  
future rather than by remembering the past from the present​.


>​>​  Bruno asks "before the duplication what is the​ ​ 
probability that "YOU" will be inside the house looking out?". That  
is not a​ ​question that is gibberish because Bruno isn't asking  
about what will happen​ ​to Telmo Menezes, in a world with  
personal pronoun duplicating machines​ ​Bruno wants to know about  
the one and only one thing that will happen to​ ​YOU. And that's  
just silly.


​> ​We discussed this before. The MWI introduces the same problem.

​And as I've explained several times MWI does NOT have the same  
problem. Before you perform the 2 slit experiment it would NOT be  
gibberish to ask you "After the experiment what do you expect to  
see?", because both before and after the experiment the meaning of  
the personal pronoun "you" is crystal clear unique and unambiguous,  
"you" is the only chunk of matter in the observable universe that  
behaves in a Telmomenezesian way. And because things are stated so  
clearly​ ​after it's all over we can check and see if the  
prediction you made about you turned out to be correct or not; it  
might have been right and it might have been wrong but it wasn't  
gibberish.


It's entirely different with a duplicating machine,  "What one and  
only one city will you see after you are duplicated?"  is just words  
with a question mark at the end and is not a question because after  
"you" is duplicated there would be 2 chunks of matter that behaves  
in a Telmomenezesian way​.​


​> ​If I am about to​ ​open Schrödinger's cat box, then one  
branch of me will see a live cat​ ​and another one a dead one.


​OK, and personal pronouns cause no confusion because with  
Schrödinger's cat box​ there is only one "me" per multiverse  
branch; a situation that is not true with duplication​ machines.  
And I might add that if "me" is defined as the person having this  
thought right now then "me" will have no future at all and has had  
no past.


​> ​By your reasoning, the probability of​ ​Telmo Menezes  
seeing a dead cat is 1,


​Correct. And by my reasoning the probability of​ ​Telmo  
Menezes seeing a ​live​ cat is​ also ​1​, always assuming  
that MWI is correct and we don't know for a fact that it is.


​> ​but from the first person​ ​perspective​ ​of any of  
the branches it is 1/2.


​Yes but you almost make that sound like a contradiction. All the  
above​ ​means ​is ​that if the experiment is performed many  
times about half the time "you"​,​ that is to say the only chunk  
of matter in the observable universe that behaves in a​ ​ 
Telmomenezesian way​,​ will see a live cat and​ ​about half  
the time the only chunk of matter in the observable universe that  
behaves in a Telmomenezesian way will see a dead cat.


​> ​Bruno's argument only move this to a scenario where both  
copies can​ ​coexist in the same branch, which can lead to some  
social awkwardness​ ​but  does not fundamentally change the first  
person / third person​ ​distinction


​One thing does change when both copies coexist in the same ​ 
observable universe, ​"What​ ​will you see next?" changes from  
a meaningful question ​into a meaningless sequence of words with a  
question mark at the end.


​> ​Duplicating a first person view is the same as doing nothing.  
1=1.


​No, something has changed. Before the duplication only one chunk  
of matter in the observable universe behaves in a Telmmenezesian  
way, but after the duplication there are two chunks​​ of matter  
in the observable universe ​that ​behave in a Telmmenezesian  
way​.​  ​


​> ​If you are​ facing your clone, the content of your  
respective experiences is​ ​already different. Do you disagree?


​Yes I disagree. Your clone is also facing its clone so you both  
change in ​exactly the same way, so both chunks of matter still  
behave in the same identical way.


>​> ​ Until that divergence there is no Moscow man or Washington  
man, there is still only the Helsinki man regardless of how many  
bodies are around.


​> ​True.

​Then if the definition of the Helsinki man is the man who is  
currently seeing Helsinki right now it would be rather silly to ask  
the Helsinki man 

Re: Holiday Exercise

2016-08-09 Thread Bruno Marchal


On 08 Aug 2016, at 19:52, Brent Meeker wrote:




On 8/8/2016 6:18 AM, Stathis Papaioannou wrote:



On Monday, 8 August 2016, Brent Meeker  wrote:


On 8/7/2016 11:20 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote:
Not necessarily. A digital computer also requires that time be  
digitized so that its registers run synchronously.  Otherwise "the  
state" is ill defined.  The finite speed of light means that  
spacially separated regions cannot be synchronous.  Even if neurons  
were only ON or OFF, which they aren't, they have frequency  
modulation, they are not synchronous.


Synchronous digital machine can emulate asynchronous digital  
machine, and that is all what is needed for the reasoning.


If the time variable is continuous, i.e. can't be digitized, I  
don't think you are correct.


If time is continuous, you would need infinite precision to exactly  
define the timing of a neuron's excitation, so you are right, that  
would not be digitisable. Practically, however, brains would have  
to have a non-zero engineering tolerance, or they would be too  
unstable. The gravitational attraction of a passing ant would  
slightly change the timing of neural activity, leading to a change  
in mental state and behaviour.


I agree that brains must be essentially classical computers, but no  
necessarily digital.  The question arose as to what was contained in  
an Observer Moment and whether, in an infinite universe there would  
necessarily be infinitely many exact instances of the same OM.  But  
having a continuous variable doesn't imply instability.   First, the  
passing ant is also instantiated infinitely many times.  Second, if  
a small cause has only a proportionately small effect then there is  
no "instability", more likely the dynamics diverge as in  
deterministic chaos.  But in any case it would allow an aleph-1  
order infinity of  OMs which would differ by infinitesimal amounts.


But I also question the coherence of this idea.  As discussed (at  
great length) by Bruno and JKC, two or more identical brains must  
instantiate the same experience, i.e. the same OM.


"OM" is ambiguous. I guess you mean the same 1-OM. I say this, because  
many people can easily confuse a "OM" with a computational state, when  
in the computationalist frame. But the whole goal here is to show that  
a "1-OM" is associated, from the 1-OMs' view, to an infinity of 3p-OM.






So if there are only a finite number of possible brain-states and  
universes are made of OMs, then there can only be a finite number of  
finite universes.


There can only be a finite number of finite universes, if there are  
universes. But with the FPI, universe are emerging pattern coming from  
a statistics on all infinite works of all finite universal machine/ 
number, so the physical reality is somehow constrained to have an  
infinite and continuous, and non computable, components. If only the  
random oracle generated by the iterated self-duplication, from the  
first person views.


Theoretical computer science makes sense of all this, thanks to the  
incompleteness phenomenon, and the intensional nuances it brings for  
knowledge and observation, as opposed to relative belief/or proof.


Bruno






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Re: Holiday Exercise

2016-08-09 Thread Bruno Marchal


On 09 Aug 2016, at 01:03, Russell Standish wrote:


On Mon, Aug 08, 2016 at 09:06:20PM +1000, Bruce Kellett wrote:

On 8/08/2016 8:38 pm, Russell Standish wrote:

On Sun, Aug 07, 2016 at 09:24:31AM +1000, Bruce Kellett wrote:

However, still no justification has been given for the assumption
that the duplicated consciousness differentiates on different
inputs. And consciousness is what computationalism is supposed to  
be

giving an account of.


Obviously different inputs does not entail the differentiation of
consciousness.


In duplication there is still only one consciousness: and as you
say, different inputs do not entail the differentiation of a single
consciousness (associated with a single brain/body). So why would it
be different if the body were also duplicated?


However computational supervenience does imply the
opposite: differentiated consciousness entails a difference in
inputs.


There is no difficulty in understanding that differentiated
consciousness entails different persons, who may or may not
experience different inputs, but I doubt that differentiation of
consciousness necessarily entails different inputs - two people can
experience the same stimuli.


This directly contradicts computational supervenience. I'm pretty sure
that if you read the fine print, you'll find that computational
supervenience is part of the YD assumption, although that fact is
often glossed over. I vaguely recall challenging Bruno on this a
couple of years ago.



The computationalist assumption is, a priori: the physical-and- 
computational supervenience, then step 8 shows that the "physical", in  
this case, is not usable if not derived from arithmetic. That means  
that physics is a branch of universal number theology (itself  
derivable from Peano Arithmetic, or meta-derivable from Robinson  
Arithmetic).
And that theology get testable through its physical part that we can  
compare with nature.


I think our disagreement was on a subtler question concerning the very  
sense of supervenience. But it is prematured to discuss this, I think,  
with respect of the current thread.


Bruno








In the W/M experiment we are asked to suppose that the
duplicated persons do, in fact, notice that they've been  
teleported to
a different city, and recognise where they they've been teleported  
to.


There is no difficulty in accepting that there is consciousness of
two cities, but is that one consciousness, or two? You beg the
question by referring to plural 'persons'.



Two, because each consciousness is aware of different cities. They
each answer the question "Which city I am in?" in a different way, iw
it is a difference that makes a difference.


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Re: That stupid diary

2016-08-09 Thread John Clark
On Tue, Aug 9, 2016 at 9:12 AM, Stathis Papaioannou 
wrote:


On 9 August 2016 at 03:27, John Clark  wrote:
>
>
> ​
>> ​>> ​
>> And as I've explained several times MWI does NOT have the same problem.
>> Before *you* perform the 2 slit experiment it would NOT be gibberish to
>> ask* you* "After the experiment what do *you* expect to see?", because
>> both before and after the experiment the meaning of the personal pronoun "
>> *you*" is crystal clear unique and unambiguous, "*you*" is the only
>> chunk of matter in the observable universe that behaves in a
>> Telmomenezesian way. It's entirely different with a duplicating machine,
>>  "What one and only one city will *you* see after *you* are duplicated?"
>>  is just words with a question mark at the end and is not a question
>> because after "*you*" is duplicated there would be 2 chunks of matter
>> ​ ​
>> that behaves in a Telmomenezesian way
>> ​.​
>> And because things are stated so clearly
>> ​ ​
>> after it's all over we can check and see if the prediction *you* made
>> about *you* turned out to be correct or not; it might have been right
>> and it might have been wrong but it wasn't gibberish.
>
>
> ​> ​
> The distinction you insist on seems arbitrary.
>

​It is. The definitions given to words are always arbitrary, but the
important thing is they not be contradictory. The definition I have given
to the personal pronoun "you" is specific and uncontradictory, Bruno's
definition is unspecific and contradictory.​



> ​> ​
> Whether the two versions of you can meet or not, there are still two
> versions of you.
>

​
I
f the laws of physics prevent them from meeting then no experiment can be
performed on them, not even a thought experiment. The personal pronoun
"you" is clearly and rigidly defined as any chunk of matter in the
observable universe that behaves in a Stathispapaioannouian way, so MWI or
no MWI if people duplicating machines are not around then only one chunk of
matter fits that description and the personal pronoun "you" can be freely
used to describe a experimental setup with no fear of ambiguity or logical
contradiction. But anybody who talks about duplicating machines and also
about "you" quite literally doesn't know what (or who) he's talking about.

 John K Clark

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Re: That stupid diary

2016-08-09 Thread John Clark
On Tue, Aug 9, 2016 at 11:58 AM, Bruno Marchal  wrote:


> ​> ​
> I am still waiting for an explanation about your two recent posts which
> contradicted themselves.


​What are you talking about?​


​> ​
> The first person remains singular for both copies.


​Yes, and BOTH copies are absolutely convinced that they are the Helsinki
man and BOTH are correct, I think you agree on that. So it makes sense to
ask what one city the Moscow man sees and​
 it makes sense to ask what one city the
​ Washington man sees but it makes no sense to ask what one city the
Helsinki man will see. ​

​> ​
> One is:
> ​ ​
> I am in Helsinki. I push on a button. I find myself in a box, I open the
> door, and I see Moscow. (and for Bruce: and yes, I am conscious of Moscow
>  and of my consciousness (life, experience, first person stories) here in
> Moscow.
> ​ ​
> I definitely get the bit "M".


​Bruno continues to use a personal pronoun smokescreen to cover logical
contradictions.

*I* have defined "*I*" as any chunk of matter that behaves in a
Johnkclarkian way, and before* I *pushed the button *I *already said that*
I* would see Moscow and turn into the Moscow man, and that is exactly
precisely what happened. ​

​So *I *did not receive one single bit of new information after *I* pushed
the button. ​

​> ​
> The other is:
> ​ ​
> I am in Helsinki. I push on a button. I find myself in a box, I open the
> door, and I see Washington. (and for Bruce: and I am conscious
> of Washington  and of my consciousness (life, experience, first person
> stories) here in Washington. I definitely get the bit "W".


*I* have defined "*I*" as any chunk of matter that behaves in a
Johnkclarkian way, and before* I *pushed the button *I *already said that
* I* would see Washington and turn into the Washington man, and that is
exactly precisely what happened. ​

​So *I *did not receive one single bit of new information after *I* pushed
the button. ​

No need for Bruno to post a reply, *I* already know Bruno's response,*
I *confuse
the peepee with the poopoo (or maybe it's the poopoo with the peepee). But *I
*have already given a clear non contradictory definition of the personal
pronoun "*I*", what is
Bruno Marchal
​'s meaning of that word?​

 John K Clark

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Re: Step 4? (Re: QUESTION 2 (Re: Holiday Exercise

2016-08-09 Thread John Clark
On Sun, Aug 7, 2016 at 10:40 AM, Bruno Marchal  wrote:

​> ​
> a nine years old child get the point


​And I might get your point if I had the mentality of a nine year old
child, or of something similar like an ancient Greek.

 John K Clark​

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Re: Holiday Exercise

2016-08-09 Thread John Clark
On Mon, Aug 8, 2016 at 8:51 PM, Brent Meeker  wrote:

>
​> ​
> I think the default assumption is that consciousness supervenes on the
> brain, so two different brains will realize two different consciousnesses
> because they are at different locations and perceiving different things.


​
But in general it's not true that they will
​
perceiving different things
​
, if you were the identical copy and in a symmetrical  environment and
facing your original the two of you would see identical things, and if your
position was instantaneously exchanged with the original there would be no
change in your consciousness or of that of the original, neither of you
could even tell an exchange had occurred. So in that situation how could it
make sense to talk of "
​
two different consciousnesses" when there is clearly no difference between
them?

​  ​
John K Clark

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