He was willing to bite a big bullet to defend the definition he used. I just applied the definition he’d used, and plopped a much fatter bullet on his plate.
To recap—He would interpret the same sequence of past physical states as conscious or not depending on which branch of a later quantum split he ended up in.
Meanwhile, I provided an alternate very similar interpretation that maintains all of the benefits I can discern of his formulation and dodges both bullets.
He was willing to bite a big bullet to defend the definition he used. I just applied the definition he’d used, and plopped a much fatter bullet on his plate.
To recap—He would interpret the same sequence of past physical states as conscious or not depending on which branch of a later quantum split he ended up in.
Meanwhile, I provided an alternate very similar interpretation that maintains all of the benefits I can discern of his formulation and dodges both bullets.
Consider posting your comment on his blog.
Too bad he didn’t consider it worth replying to (yet?)
Too bad indeed. In my experience, if he hasn’t within a day or so, he won’t.
Funny, I just came here to copy it for that purpose.