I didn't even understand that question. Everything physical is in a superposition until it arrives in consciousness.
I don't know what "collapse on your face" means, so I cannot answer the question. That is why I am instead making a statement which cannot be misunderstood: everything is in a superposition until it is registered in consciousness, including the sun, the photons and your face.
You don't know what a "collapse on your face" means, but you know perfectly well what was the collapse of the primordial wave function. Give me a break.
The primordial wave function collapsed when the first animal became conscious. Not when anything happened to its skin. Its unconscious ancestors already had skin, and they "inhabited" a reality where no wave functions collapsed.
It's consciousness was totally related with all its sensory input, so that's exactly like feeling the heat on your face.
I don't think about MWI at all. I know that the absorbtion of the photon requires the UPDATE of the wave function and recalcutation of its evolution.
If you're telling me that it didn't receive any stimuli from the environment, then I don't believe you. Are you saying it?
Then you need to start doing so.
Ah-ha! Now we have made some progress. Yes, when photons interact with a face then the wave function changes with respect to time. HOWEVER, in phase 1 of 2PC there is no such thing as time as we normally understand it -- nothing is "updated", because nothing can change. It exists outside of time, until the wavefunction collapses. In other words, in phase 1 we can think of time going backwards or forwards and it makes no difference. We could just as easily say that the wavefunction is updated when the photon leaves your face and heads towards the sun.
I don't understand the question. Let's talk about comb jellies. Do they "receive stimuli from the environment"? Yes. Are they conscious? No. They do not cross the QCT. They do not "think". They just sense, and respond. They have nervous systems, but no brains.
And why do you think that its nervous system is not enough to cross QCT? Did Greg calculate it?
It doesn't have a "central processing unit". It can't make decisions, because it doesn't have sufficient neural complexity to make internal models of the future and compare different potential responses. I don't need calculations for that -- I just need the principle. What Greg has done is provide that principle -- he made me realise that consciousness is directly related to the frame problem.
That is a bit like asking what it is like to be a bat. I can't answer that. All I am saying is that there was something like it was to be Ikaria, and it probably isn't all that different to what it is like to be a simple sort of worm now.
You can't have a potential history of LUCAS without the sequence of all the potential events which led to its formation, with all the potential physics, chemistry, and biology that may have formed LUCAS. To have this potential process, you need an almost infinite number of the wave functions collapses.
So what?
The simplest IF - ELSE statement in the simplest algorithm is making the decision.
There is no such thing as "almost infinite". There are certainly a lot of them. But nothing like as many as are required by MWI.
So it can't make decisions about future actions. To be able to make such a decision you need to be able to model the world, model the future, and model yourself within it. That needs a definable amount of processing power, not just sensory equipment hardwired to muscles to create reflexes. There are two fundamentally different functions here, both of which are strongly associated with animal nervous systems, and yet they remain fundamentally distinct.
Not quite. "If else" decisions can be hard wired. They don't require modeling. So in the QCT sense, these don't count as decisions at all. They are just decision-free causal chains.
I have no idea what you mean. I meant exactly what I said.
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