Comment on Framing Consciousness

Fri, 08 May 2009 12:18:36 GMT

something encoded in the decimal expansion of some particle's coordinate possesses the same subjective experience

No, it doesn't. First of all, the fact that the state of a computer can be represented as a number does not mean that any particular number is a representation of a computer. Especially if that number is obviously something else, like the position of a particle.

Second, you have snuck in two major assumptions: that the universe contains infinitely many particles, and that every particle's coordinates contain an infinite amount of information. Neither of these is a settled question in physics, and I can easily assert that the universe is finite and discrete.

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