From: Bradley Thomas (brad36@gmail.com)
Date: Wed Dec 02 2009 - 16:29:30 MST
>A computer program running on two machines in parallel could produce two
streams of consciousness in lockstep.
Nice idea in theory but in practice this set-up is out of lockstep almost
immediately since no two processors run at exactly the same speed. That's
not to mention that as soon as you introduce input (necessary for a
consciousness) then the systems differ substantially in their exposure to
external entropy. Divergence may not be huge to begin with but any
divergence is sufficient to show that they are not the same consciousness.
Brad Thomas
www.bradleythomas.com
Twitter @bradleymthomas, @instansa
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-sl4@sl4.org [mailto:owner-sl4@sl4.org] On Behalf Of Stathis
Papaioannou
Sent: Wednesday, December 02, 2009 5:32 PM
To: sl4@sl4.org
Subject: Re: [sl4] Uploading (was : goals of AI)
2009/12/3 Bradley Thomas <brad36@gmail.com>:
>>I can give an exact answer to your question. I would not hesitate to
>>kill
> myself if the copy that survives is running in lockstep with me, since
> in that case I could expect to live on in the copy with an
> uninterrupted stream of consciousness.
>
> The only instance of you that is going to be in lockstep with you, is
> you!
A computer program running on two machines in parallel could produce two
streams of consciousness in lockstep.
-- Stathis Papaioannou
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