Re: "Consciousness" and anthropic reasoning

2001-02-13 Thread James Higgo (co.uk)
Jesse, nobody on this list is unaware of Carter's paper, to which I and others have referred in several of our papers. The point is, life is a high-level concept, not relevant to the more fundamental debate I thought we were having. What was the point of Anthropic Reasoning 101? > So my question

"Consciousness" and anthropic reasoning

2001-02-12 Thread Jesse Mazer
"James Higgo" wrote: >Jesse, > >The point you picked up 'self-referential thought' is not relevant to the >discussion we were having. However, it is the most interesting thing in my >post. I think it's actually pretty relevant. What we're talking about is what Nick Bostrom calls "the problem o