On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 5:15 PM, meekerdb <meeke...@verizon.net> wrote:
> But strictly speaking they cannot be identical. For example it is > statistically certain that they will be thinking different thoughts as they > revive from the transport. > I don't know what statistics you're referring to but I do know that when statistics are involved certainty rarely is. > The no-cloning theorem already ensures that they cannot be identical at > the level of quantum state > The no cloning theorem says that you can't duplicate the quantum state of a particle (although you can transport one at the speed of light, that is to say you can destroy the quantum state here and recreate it over there). But if we become a new person every time a particle in our head changed state we'd become a new person about 10^43 times a second. and the very interactions with the environment that make them > quasi-classical will ensure they are not identical even at a much higher > level than the molecular. > The duplicates would need some sort of feedback mechanism to keep the two brains in synchronization, non linear effects would amplify tiny variations into big differences, but that is a engineering detail and this is a thought experiment, so we cut back on needless complications. John K Clark -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en.
