ArisKatsaris comments on The ethics of randomized computation in the multiverse - Less Wrong

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Comment author: ArisKatsaris 23 November 2011 01:59:42PM *  0 points [-]
  1. Assuming we have sufficiently dense register as to provide for a human consciousness within a quantum randomizer's memory bank.
  2. Assuming many-worlds.

Also:
3. Assuming simulations of people are people.

Comment author: Logos01 23 November 2011 02:50:20PM 0 points [-]

I understand "perfect copy" to mean that it is the thing it is a copy of -- functionally and observationally indistinguishable.

Comment author: ArisKatsaris 23 November 2011 04:26:36PM 0 points [-]

I don't see the words "perfect copy" or even just "copy" used anywhere in the article, only simulation and representation. That consciousness can be produced in a traditional silicon computer via an algorithm merely isomorphic to the processes in the human brain is an assumption I don't yet grant.

Comment author: Logos01 23 November 2011 04:51:55PM *  1 point [-]

I don't see the words "perfect copy"

Correct, but I did in item one postulate "a human consciousness".

Is a human consciousness not a person, merely because it is a simulated human consciousness?

That consciousness can be produced in a traditional silicon computer via an algorithm merely isomorphic to the processes in the human brain is an assumption I don't yet grant.

I think you and I are using very different understandings of what postulated item #1 meant.

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