(H.Finney wrote:) “But then, some philosophers have claimed that brains could perhaps influence quantum events, pointing to the supposed collapse of the wave function being caused by consciousness as precedent. And we all know how deep that rabbit hole goes.”
How deep does it go? Penrose’s (a physicist) quantum brain components (an aspect of neurobiology and philosophy of mind) don’t seem to exist, but I had to dig up ideas like the “cemi field theory” on my own, in past discussions on this topic (which always degenrated to uploading for immortality and cryonics); they certainly weren’t forwarded by free-will naysayer robots.
“(EY wrote:) If you’re thinking about a world that could arise in a lawful way, but whose probability is a quadrillion to one, and something very pleasant or very awful is happening in this world… well, it does probably exist, if it is lawful. But you should try to release one quadrillionth as many neurotransmitters, in your reward centers or your aversive centers, so that you can weigh that world appropriately in your decisions. If you don’t think you can do that… don’t bother thinking about it.”
What if it is a fifty-fifty decision? If I see a pretty girl who is a known head-case, I can try to make the neural connection of her image with my boobies-Marylin-Manson neuron. Once I start to use abstract concepts (encoded in a real brain) to control chemical squirts, I’m claiming the potential for some limited free will. I doubt there are any world-lines where a computer speaker materializes into my lungs, even though it is physically possible. But if I think I’d like to crush the speaker into my chest, it might happen. In fact, I’d bet world-lines split off so rarely, that there isn’t a single world’line where I attack myslef with a computer speaker right now. Has anyone read recent papers describing what variables limit decoherence assuming MWI? To my knowledge, photon effects only demonstrate a “few” nearby photons in parralel worlds.
Don’t faster-than-c solutions to general relavity destroy the concept of MWI as a block universe?
(H.Finney wrote:) “But then, some philosophers have claimed that brains could perhaps influence quantum events, pointing to the supposed collapse of the wave function being caused by consciousness as precedent. And we all know how deep that rabbit hole goes.”
How deep does it go? Penrose’s (a physicist) quantum brain components (an aspect of neurobiology and philosophy of mind) don’t seem to exist, but I had to dig up ideas like the “cemi field theory” on my own, in past discussions on this topic (which always degenrated to uploading for immortality and cryonics); they certainly weren’t forwarded by free-will naysayer robots.
“(EY wrote:) If you’re thinking about a world that could arise in a lawful way, but whose probability is a quadrillion to one, and something very pleasant or very awful is happening in this world… well, it does probably exist, if it is lawful. But you should try to release one quadrillionth as many neurotransmitters, in your reward centers or your aversive centers, so that you can weigh that world appropriately in your decisions. If you don’t think you can do that… don’t bother thinking about it.”
What if it is a fifty-fifty decision? If I see a pretty girl who is a known head-case, I can try to make the neural connection of her image with my boobies-Marylin-Manson neuron. Once I start to use abstract concepts (encoded in a real brain) to control chemical squirts, I’m claiming the potential for some limited free will. I doubt there are any world-lines where a computer speaker materializes into my lungs, even though it is physically possible. But if I think I’d like to crush the speaker into my chest, it might happen. In fact, I’d bet world-lines split off so rarely, that there isn’t a single world’line where I attack myslef with a computer speaker right now. Has anyone read recent papers describing what variables limit decoherence assuming MWI? To my knowledge, photon effects only demonstrate a “few” nearby photons in parralel worlds.
Don’t faster-than-c solutions to general relavity destroy the concept of MWI as a block universe?