Re: Rép : The Meaning of Life

2007-01-24 Thread Brent Meeker
Bruno Marchal wrote: ... > Now, when you run the UD, as far as you keep the discourse in the third > person mode, everything remains enumerable, even in the limit. > But from the first person point of view, a priori the uncountable > stories, indeed generated by the UD, take precedence on the co

Re: ASSA and Many-Worlds

2007-01-24 Thread Jason Resch
On 1/24/07, Stathis Papaioannou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Jason Resch writes: > > > >My appologies to those on this list, this is how I should have worded > >my conclusion: > > >Positive spared lives = Take replication > >Neutral spared lives = Take coin flip > >Negative spared lives = Tak

Re: ASSA and Many-Worlds

2007-01-24 Thread Johnathan Corgan
Stathis Papaioannou wrote: > If some multiverse theory happens to be true then by your way of argument we > should all be extremely anxious all the time, because every moment terrible > things > are definitely happening to some copy of us. For example, we should be > constantly > be worrying

Re: Rép : The Meaning of Life

2007-01-24 Thread Bruno Marchal
Le 23-janv.-07, à 06:17, Stathis Papaioannou a écrit : > >>> Searle's theory is that consciousness is a result of actual brain >>> activity, not Turing emulable. >> >> No... True: Searle's theory is that consciousness is a result >> of brain activity, but nowhere does Searle pretend that

RE: ASSA and Many-Worlds

2007-01-24 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
Jason Resch writes: > Stathis Papaioannou wrote: > > Jason Resch writes: > > > Let's say being spared is "neutral" while being tortured is obviously bad, > > even > > if you are tortured for only a few minutes. Also, assume the intensity of > > the > > torture and the quality of life on bein

Searles' Fundamental Error (was: rep: rep: the meaning of life)

2007-01-24 Thread Bruno Marchal
Le 23-janv.-07, à 15:59, 1Z a écrit : > > > Bruno Marchal wrote: > >> Also, nobody has proved the existence of a primitive physical >> universe. > > Or of a Platonia Call it Platonia, God, Universe, or Glass-of-Beer, we don' t care. But we have to bet on a "reality", if we want some progre