In Bostrom article Adam and Eve manipulate probabilities of useful events by manipulating total number of observers in their universe. Now is my claim: IF any magic is physically possible, when evolutionary process of natural selection has already use it. Because manipulating of probabilities of success of your offsprings will give you strong evolutionary advantage. This magic may be very small, just 51 percent chance to get better genes in offspring and 49 per cent chance not to die in 50-50 situation. This claim is not equal to the claim that any magic exist or any claims about possible mechanism of such magic.
Why? I think the mechanism has everything to do with it; can you think of any other way to perform ‘magic’ than Adam’s anthropic cheat? Besides, it wouldn’t even work- if he were being observed by us, we have no rational reason to believe that a wounded deer will come around, and we’d be right. It’s simply an anomaly brought about by Adam’s highly improbable perspective as the first of billions of observers.
Ok, lets try to explain one-pont state in your own words. Basically, your personality model consists of pure attention part P, and memory part M1. If P moves away from M1, it can’t return back and could go to any M2, M3 and so on. Basically one point state is pure attention without any experience. In words of contemporary philosopher BENJ HELLIE it is just “sole pellet”. Somehow it is possible to feel pure attention, may be it is a situation when it starts to experience itself. (Or maybe it is only illusion). Some esoteric theories are concentrated about this ability, mostly Dzogchen school of TIbet Buddhism (rigpa conception). But in european rational tradition one may remember phenomenalogical reduction by Husserl
OK, I think I have a better grasp now. But what are you arguing for? What’s the point?
I do not argue now, I just try to answer your questions. The final nature of reality is not known to me, but I have many interesting ideas. If our idea of reality is wrong it means that new existential risks exist. And may be new opportunities to prevent them.
Magic it self is not important, it is important that it require different nature of reality.
Now how to manipulate probabilities. For example I want to win in a lottery with chances 1 to 100. What I need to do so is a copy machine and external computer and MWI interpretation. I create 100 copies of me, and put them in sleep. Than external computer check result of the lottery and kill 99 sleeping copies which do not win. The only survived copy finds that it won. (Such “magic” can’t be measured by outside observer.)
It in fact somehow resemble two-slot experiment. It may be presented in following way: An electron sends its wave function to “see” all possible ways and “calculate” probabilities using all trajectories and their interference. After it, it move by one of this trajectories. Sending wave-function is like creating millions copies. Interference of trajectories which results in cancelling of trajectories is like killing wrong copies. Actual trajectory is like awakening in with wining ticket. Basically it helps the electron to create some “magic” like moving through two slots simultaneously.
While this explanation may be simplificated and probably wrong, I hope it may be food for thoughts. It does not include qualia, for example.
UPDATE: I think that first living organisms was able to use this also somehow, so it is not only for electrons and supercomputers, but also for living beings, and this ability evolve during evolution.
Why? I think the mechanism has everything to do with it; can you think of any other way to perform ‘magic’ than Adam’s anthropic cheat? Besides, it wouldn’t even work- if he were being observed by us, we have no rational reason to believe that a wounded deer will come around, and we’d be right. It’s simply an anomaly brought about by Adam’s highly improbable perspective as the first of billions of observers.
OK, I think I have a better grasp now. But what are you arguing for? What’s the point?
I do not argue now, I just try to answer your questions. The final nature of reality is not known to me, but I have many interesting ideas. If our idea of reality is wrong it means that new existential risks exist. And may be new opportunities to prevent them.
Magic it self is not important, it is important that it require different nature of reality.
Now how to manipulate probabilities. For example I want to win in a lottery with chances 1 to 100. What I need to do so is a copy machine and external computer and MWI interpretation. I create 100 copies of me, and put them in sleep. Than external computer check result of the lottery and kill 99 sleeping copies which do not win. The only survived copy finds that it won. (Such “magic” can’t be measured by outside observer.)
It in fact somehow resemble two-slot experiment. It may be presented in following way: An electron sends its wave function to “see” all possible ways and “calculate” probabilities using all trajectories and their interference. After it, it move by one of this trajectories. Sending wave-function is like creating millions copies. Interference of trajectories which results in cancelling of trajectories is like killing wrong copies. Actual trajectory is like awakening in with wining ticket. Basically it helps the electron to create some “magic” like moving through two slots simultaneously.
While this explanation may be simplificated and probably wrong, I hope it may be food for thoughts. It does not include qualia, for example.
UPDATE: I think that first living organisms was able to use this also somehow, so it is not only for electrons and supercomputers, but also for living beings, and this ability evolve during evolution.