From: Emlyn O'regan (oregan.emlyn@healthsolve.com.au)
Date: Sun Jun 16 2002 - 21:18:16 MDT
Lee Corbin wrote:
> > about runs (program executions) that from the Operating
> > System's point of view are entirely deterministic. Your
> > calculation (i.e. your experience) determines only one
> > bit of output that the OS uses: namely whether or not
> > to terminate the second execution mid-way through.
Eugene wrote:
> Because both runs are deterministic, only one outcome (to
> press or not to
> press) is possible. That information is available at the first run. If
> you're the second run, and you vote to terminate, you're
> doomed already,
> regardless of what you do.
If the universe is deterministic, what value is there in either run? How is
0 runs any worse than 1 run? As long as the starting conditions and the
processing mechanism is well described, so is the entirety of the determined
existence. What is experience, in this context? Do we propose a value for
run #1 based on an assumption of dualism? If not, where does calculation of
the determined existence add value?
Emlyn
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