I weigh as much as 167,000 ants. Each of them has ~ 10,000 log(10,000) bits of info. I have ~ 10^11 log(10^11) bits of info. I contain as much information as 165 ants.
I’m not following your math here, and I’m especially not following the part where if a person contains as much information as 165 ants and there are 1 quadrillion ants and ~ 10 billion people, a given unit of information is more likely to end up in a human than in an ant. And since we do believe reincarnation is false, it’s much worse than that, since ants have been around longer than humans.
Also, I have a philosophical objection with basing it on units consciousness. If we’re to weight the chances of being a certain animal with the number of bits information they have, doesn’t that imply we’re working from a theory where “I” am a single bit of information? I’d much sooner say that I am all the information in my head equally, or an algorithm that processes that information, or at least not just a single bit of it.
Oops; that was supposed to say, “I contain as much information as 165 times my body-mass in ants”.
I’m kinda disappointed that your objection was that the math didn’t work, and not that I’m smarter than 165 ants. (I admit they are winning the battle over the kitchen counter. But that’s gotta be, like, 2000 ants. Don’t sell me short.)
If you want to say that you’re all the information in your head equally, then you can’t ask questions like “What are the odds I would have been an ant?”
I’m not following your math here, and I’m especially not following the part where if a person contains as much information as 165 ants and there are 1 quadrillion ants and ~ 10 billion people, a given unit of information is more likely to end up in a human than in an ant. And since we do believe reincarnation is false, it’s much worse than that, since ants have been around longer than humans.
Also, I have a philosophical objection with basing it on units consciousness. If we’re to weight the chances of being a certain animal with the number of bits information they have, doesn’t that imply we’re working from a theory where “I” am a single bit of information? I’d much sooner say that I am all the information in my head equally, or an algorithm that processes that information, or at least not just a single bit of it.
Oops; that was supposed to say, “I contain as much information as 165 times my body-mass in ants”.
I’m kinda disappointed that your objection was that the math didn’t work, and not that I’m smarter than 165 ants. (I admit they are winning the battle over the kitchen counter. But that’s gotta be, like, 2000 ants. Don’t sell me short.)
If you want to say that you’re all the information in your head equally, then you can’t ask questions like “What are the odds I would have been an ant?”