On 15 Jun 2002, at 14:27, Russell Standish wrote:
No the issue concerns any conscious program, rather than any
particular one. The fact that there are vastly more amoeba than homo
sapiens tends to argue against amoebae being consious.
This remind me of Jack Vance novels Alastor.
One of
Russell wrote:
I take consciousness to be that property essential for the operation
of the Anthropic Principle. The universe is the way it is because we
are here observing it as conscious beings.
The first problem this raises is why does the anthropic principle
work? - one can conceive
Saibal Mitra wrote:
So, I am not saying that only certain programs are conscious and others not.
I am really saying that if you the universe is running (in some
approximation) a certain program in my head. That program defines me. If you
run that program on a computer, that computer would
Hi Saibal,
gt; As I said I agree with you. But do you really mean a measure defined
gt; on a set of computer programs, or a set of computer program *states*?
I think that you can derive one from the other. I have thought about this
before, and I now think that the observer should associate
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