Caledonian2 comments on The Conscious Sorites Paradox - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Caledonian2 29 April 2008 03:10:48PM 0 points [-]

For every spontaneous floaty brain in infinite space,

There are several problems here.

1) You're only considering a single universe. 2) It's not the formation of brains that are important. (Actual brains that form in the void die before they can get any useful computation done.) 3) The substrate of the computation is irrelevant to the content of the algorithm.