[ExI] Repeated Experience

[Vladimir Nesov]

Thursday, July 26, 2007, Stathis Papaioannou wrote:

SP> On 26/07/07, Vladimir Nesov <robotact at mail.ru> wrote:

>> This comes around to just another take on quantum immortality.
>> If universe given observer is embedded in is described by a
>> set of (mathematical) rules (e.g. initial state, transitions), and these rules are
>> being followed by some implementation on computer, subjective
>> experience of observer doesn't depend on implementation or computer.
>> From observer's point of view there is no difference between him being
>> emulated on one computer system or another, his experience from his
>> point of view is a platonic entity. This subjective experience can as well be
>> considered to be emulated partially on one implementation, and
>> partially on another, or on no implementation at all - this doesn't
>> change anything. Pitfall of such thought experiment is that this
>> platonic universe can't be modified, modification equals to
>> picking different platonic universe, so for discussion about
>> subjective experience of embedded observer it doesn't matter what you do
>> with implementation.

SP> You can't change Platonic reality; but then, you can't change a
SP> deterministic universe (such as the MWI describes) either.

As in previous message 'universe' refers to all states at all times, meaning of
'change' applied to universe observer is embedded in is different.

As you (seem to?) refer to it, 'change' is a facet of transition function, which in
turn depends on current state of the universe (at current time), which
includes state of the embedded observer, 'you', so 'you' can 'change'
the 'universe'.

When you change implementation (destroy the computing system, etc.),
rules this implementation implements are changed relative to rules
system was originally designed to, so that emulated universe is
different from the one system was designed to emulate.

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 Vladimir Nesov                            mailto:robotact at mail.ru