From: Krekoski Ross (rosskrekoski@gmail.com)
Date: Thu May 08 2008 - 12:55:41 MDT
Of course, if my own cognition is not subject to conscious control, free
will is simply an illusion, and my entire cognitive process as I am
subjectively experiencing it right now is actually a simulation, it probably
will never get to that point.
Ross
On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 6:54 PM, Krekoski Ross <rosskrekoski@gmail.com>
wrote:
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> On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 12:58 AM, Mike Dougherty <msd001@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 7:36 PM, Krekoski Ross <rosskrekoski@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > not notice a difference if some of the quantum interactions get
>> > 'approximated'. Of course, under such a scenario, science in a
>> simulation
>> > would hit a complexity wall at a specific scale of observation.
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>> At what scale would it really matter?
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> If a community of intelligent systems is existing completely within a
> simulation, it would matter when the collective knowledge or intelligence of
> the community of intelligent systems was such that redundancies in their
> environment that are the result of a complexity cap on the machine
> simulating them, started to become apparent.
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>
> Ross
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