Caledonian2 comments on The Conscious Sorites Paradox - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Caledonian2 29 April 2008 07:26:42PM 1 point [-]

Depressurization destroys a brain long before oxygen deprivation sets in.

The point is not to consider brains, but computational devices capable of representing a mind algorithm, of which brains are only the most familiar to you.

It's the distribution of the you-defined algorithm across the various universes that needs to be considered, not merely the chance of a brain arising randomly from chaos.