[ExI] stoopid kwestchyuns

[Darin Sunley]

Yes. they are different, and different in a structurally interesting way.

An omniscient agent contains a structure that is homeomorphic with its
entire containing universe [possibly except for itself, depending on what
you mean by omniscience], and mechanisms for continuously updating that
structure to keep it in correspondence with the entire containing universe.

A totally ignorant agent contains no internal structures with any
correspondence to the structure of the containing universe except by
chance, and no mechanisms to synchronize any part of that structure with
any part of the surrounding universe.

On Tue, Nov 3, 2020 at 6:49 PM Will Steinberg via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> I have a feeling that this question is congruent to the question "does
> free will exist?"
>
> On Tue, Nov 3, 2020, 8:34 PM Stuart LaForge via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>
>>
>>  From an information-theoretic POV, is there a difference between
>> omniscience and oblivion i.e. total ignorance even of self?
>>
>> Stuart LaForge
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