Re: First person plural

2015-07-28 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 27 Jul 2015, at 22:21, John Clark wrote: On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 1:24 PM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: ​ ​you refer to the guy in Helsinki, and its copies which are in W and M. ​Ok good, this time ​Bruno Marchal correctly wrote W AND M. You just betray yourself that for

Re: A riddle for John Clark

2015-07-28 Thread John Clark
On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 4:44 PM, Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com wrote: An uploaded mind is running within a computer process. If the mind presses a button inside its virtual environment, the process will fork and if within the simulation of the child process a light within the virtual

Re: The Girard-Boole

2015-07-28 Thread John Clark
On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: ​ The question is asked to any entity, or machines, before they undergo a duplication. The question is: what do you expect to live. The question is why does ​ Bruno Marchal ​ absolutely insist ​​ on using personal pronouns even when

Re: A riddle for John Clark

2015-07-28 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 28 Jul 2015, at 03:46, chris peck wrote: @ Bruno Not at all. And John Calrk agrees with what I will say here. personal identity is not a Leibnizian notion. You need to focus on what these factors govern: 1) international tariffs. 2) the state of the chinese economy. 3)

Re: A riddle for John Clark

2015-07-28 Thread Jason Resch
On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 11:24 AM, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 1:47 AM, Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com wrote: ​ ​ You agreed already that a conscious uploaded mind in a process that forks and diverges is from the uploaded mind's point of view, an

Re: A riddle for John Clark

2015-07-28 Thread John Clark
On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com wrote: ​ ​ ​Forget about giving the correct prediction, a prediction can't even be described by any means. Bruno thinks we can repeat the experiment and compile statistics from it and then compare the number obtained from experiment with

Re: A riddle for John Clark

2015-07-28 Thread John Clark
On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 1:47 AM, Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com wrote: ​ ​ You agreed already that a conscious uploaded mind in a process that forks and diverges is from the uploaded mind's point of view, an experience indistinguishable from fundamental randomness. ​ ​ If it is

Re: A riddle for John Clark

2015-07-28 Thread John Clark
On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: ​ ​ UDA is for the babies ​And so are pompous homemade acronyms. 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

Re: David Deutsch and Constructor Theory

2015-07-28 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 28 Jul 2015, at 04:46, John Clark wrote: David Deutsch Wrote:: ​​Many mathematicians to this day don't realize that information is physical and that there is no such thing as an abstract computer. Only a physical object can compute things. Bruno Marchal ​Wrote:​ ​ ​That approach

Re: David Deutsch and Constructor Theory

2015-07-28 Thread meekerdb
On 7/28/2015 10:56 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: To refute what I say, you have to show a math theory which assumes something physical. Even quantum information theory does not assume any physical objects. They assume only mathematical relations. That's not significant. Information theory is the

The Girard-Boole

2015-07-28 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 28 Jul 2015, at 18:33, John Clark wrote: On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com wrote: ​ ​​Forget about giving the correct prediction, a prediction can't even be described by any means. Bruno thinks we can repeat the experiment and compile statistics from it and then

book deal

2015-07-28 Thread meekerdb
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Re: David Deutsch and Constructor Theory

2015-07-28 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 28 Jul 2015, at 20:33, meekerdb wrote: On 7/28/2015 10:56 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: To refute what I say, you have to show a math theory which assumes something physical. Even quantum information theory does not assume any physical objects. They assume only mathematical relations.

Re: A riddle for John Clark

2015-07-28 Thread spudboy100 via Everything List
Since we're talking about electrons or photons, everything should be free, since one is liberated from the heavy realm of neutrons and protons. Maybe computing cycles is the common currency. The Jeff Bezos upload has more computing cycles than I because he is far richer. Maybe this is how

Re: A riddle for John Clark

2015-07-28 Thread Jason Resch
On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 11:33 AM, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com wrote: ​ ​ ​Forget about giving the correct prediction, a prediction can't even be described by any means. Bruno thinks we can repeat the experiment and compile

Re: David Deutsch and Constructor Theory

2015-07-28 Thread meekerdb
On 7/28/2015 1:12 PM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 28 Jul 2015, at 20:33, meekerdb wrote: On 7/28/2015 10:56 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: To refute what I say, you have to show a math theory which assumes something physical. Even quantum information theory does not assume any physical objects. They