yttrium comments on Weighting the probability of being a mind by the quantity of the matter composing the computer that calculates that mind - Less Wrong

0 Post author: yttrium 11 February 2014 03:34PM

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Comment author: yttrium 28 July 2014 07:10:08AM *  0 points [-]

The rock on top of the computer wouldn't count into the "amount doing the computation". Apart from that, I agree that weight shouldn't be the right quantity. A better way to formulate what I am getting at would maybe be that "probability of being a mind is an extensive physical quantity". I have updated the post accordingly.

Regarding your second paragraph: No, the TV screens aren't part of the matter that does the computation.