On 3/11/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Lee Corbin</b> <<a href="mailto:lcorbin@rawbw.com">lcorbin@rawbw.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Of course, at least to outward observers. You would report what ever you report.<br>It does not *necessarily* follow that you experience anything. Recall the horrible<br>GLUT (Giant Lookup Table) which performs no computations but reports vived
<br>experiences.<br></blockquote></div><br>But the GLUT is not lying; it is, after all, nothing less than a multiverse with a population of 2^N people (N being the relevant number of bits, itself a large number by everyday standards); when you ask it for output, you are effectively using a time machine to travel forwards and sideways in time to the relevant part of that multiverse and select one member of its population to ask; the person thus consulted truthfully reports a subjective experience.
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