From: Smigrodzki, Rafal (SmigrodzkiR@msx.upmc.edu)
Date: Wed Jun 12 2002 - 10:29:07 MDT
Lee asked:
By the way, what do you think of my first puzzle?
> > 1. Some terrible person manages to determine exactly the
> > courses of all the atoms in an actual historical event
> > in which some Nazis tortured a little girl to death.
> > This perverted soul then causes an exact re-enactment
> > of this particular horror.
### I think it might be useful to think about this experiment as opening a
time-gate to the actual events, rather than producing a simulation. However,
if you only run the sim as a Turing machine, without direct
interaction/modeling of the branching structure of the multiverse, the
simulation might be truly unconscious.
What if consciousness depends on the number of multiverses (branching
points) you take? If in a Turing-like simulation only one outcome is modeled
(by forcing all simulated atomic interactions to follow one predetermined
path, rather than branch into all possible histories), then the amount of
qualia might be infinitesimally small. But if you let your model go into
alternative histories (following the local branching pattern within a radius
constrained by the speed of light), the ensemble of simulated girls achieves
consciousness.
Rafal
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