[extropy-chat] "Dead Time" of the Brain.

[Eliezer S. Yudkowsky]

Heartland wrote:
> Heartland:
> 
>>>If there are 2 instances of brain type AND each instance produces one
>>>instance of mind type, then this MUST add up to 2 instances of mind type.
>>>Yes or no?
> 
> Clark: 
> 
>>No.
> 
> 1+1 does not equal 2? Well, I guess that is my cue to leave this discussion. 

*Rolls eyes.*

A floppy disk contains 100 bits of Shannon information about System S. 
How much information is in two copies of the floppy?

Do you think that if your brain used twice as much atoms to store the 
same data, there would be twice as much people in your head?

-- 
Eliezer S. Yudkowsky                          http://singinst.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence