From: Giu1i0 Prisc0 (g2002@prisco.info)
Date: Sun Jun 23 2002 - 06:02:44 MDT
Well if I am a look-up table and I still feel like myself, that means that a
look-up table can be conscious and feel like a real person. So in this case
nothing would change for me, I would just wonder what are the differences
between me and the someone else who is the only real person.
My answer to the original formulation of the question (I find out that I am
the only real person): the other persons look like they are conscious beings
(Turing Test), so I would think that they are simulations so advanced to
have achieved consciousness, and still regard them as conscious beings. The
only other possibility still compatible with my knowledge is that they are
puppets run by "somebody else". In this case I would assume that "somebody
else" is a conscious being and that the other persons are still a viable
communication channel to this conscious being.
> > Here's a stranger and stronger form of the question: What would you do
if
> > you found out that the world was a simulation and *someone else* was the
> > only real person in it? Assume that we subtract from the equation your
> > Cartesian knowledge that you are a real person and replace it with the
hard
> > knowledge that you are a giant look-up table. What would you do?
--- Giu1i0 Pri5c0 g2002@prisco.info myfirstname@mylastname.info http://mylastname.info/myfirstname
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