[extropy-chat] Re: Formulating a bet

[Eugen Leitl]

On Mon, Mar 28, 2005 at 01:46:36PM -0800, "Hal Finney" wrote:
> What I had in mind, regarding the "substantially the same person" test
> for a bet on cryonics success, was something like a modified Turing test.

If you can reproduce individual behaviour variations (previously
characterized), including neuronal dynamics analysis of simple critters (C.
elegans, Aplysia) in machina, with statistic significance you'd have
something a lot more stringent than a Turing test.

This is something which we could do *right now*. One should think funding 
such a project should be a piece of cake, shouldn't one? 

> We would pose questions and get responses from the person both before and
> after the suspension.  These could then be randomized and someone who did
> not know which were which would try to distinguish the post-suspension
> responses from the pre-suspension ones.  If they were not able to do so,
> then we'd say that the personality and memories of the suspendee were
> substantially intact.

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