[ExI] The second step towards immortality

[Anders Sandberg]

On 10/01/2014 00:11, Kelly Anderson wrote:
> The physics of this universe combined with the mathematics of
> probability make it impossible to create a "look up table" that could
> even begin to pretend consciousness.

Heh. Philosophical thought experiment, right? However, I saw a neat 
paper recently looking at how the causal structure of the universe 
actually puts nontrivial limits on faking Turing tests. I think it was 
by Drew McDermott, building on his paper
http://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/dvm/papers/humongous.pdf


-- 
Anders Sandberg,
Future of Humanity Institute
Oxford Martin School
Faculty of Philosophy
Oxford University