Re: Immortality

From: Dan Fabulich (daniel.fabulich@yale.edu)
Date: Fri Dec 15 2000 - 14:05:40 MST


Eliezer S. Yudkowsky wrote:

> Consciousness is real. It affects us, physically - it certainly affects
> the physical words we type on our physical keyboards, or what on Earth are
> we talking about? If you find yourself discussing Turing machines that
> run for O(2^N) years, it may be an indication that you're looking in the
> wrong place for answers...

If, as it turns out, there's nothing out there but finite-state Turing
machines, then that tells us something rather interesting indeed: that
there is nowhere else to look.

-Dan

      -unless you love someone-
    -nothing else makes any sense-
           e.e. cummings



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