From: Damien Broderick (damien@ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Sat Jun 19 1999 - 08:37:14 MDT
At 06:56 PM 18/06/99 -0700, Hal wrote:
>Either all possible mental states are existing all the time
>just due to random neural firings in disconnected brains all over the
>world, or else these carefully planned stimulations, which were designed
>to mimic actual neural patterns in a conscious brain, were not actually
>producing any mental states.
>
>So, what do you think?
Obviously the latter, since connectivity of the neurons is absent.
Which raises the interesting (pseudo?)point - Michael Nielsen can
adjudicate, perhaps - that if all or most particles inside our light cone
still retain a non-local connection from their propinquity at the Big Bang,
does that suffice to instantiate all these Moravecian superposed mental
states? Presumably not, since decoherence has long since extinguished most
of the non-local connections.
Sorry for the typo in the title cite in my previous post. Hasty typing.
Damien Broderick
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