On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 01:08:02PM -0700, Matt Mahoney wrote: > Thus, the fallacy of immortality through uploading is exposed. A copy of you > is not you.
No. As long there's no fork all systems are identical. There's no measurement which allows you to tell one discrete synchronized system from another. Space is not labeled. The spray paint of the case is not relevant.</brokenrecord> > But why? A copy of a computation is as good as the original. Surely you > don't believe that there is something going on the brain that cannot be > explained by physics? Two synchronized chess computers play the same game of chess. If you allow them to diverge, they play a different game of chess. > This is what happens when logic conflicts with the hard-coded beliefs that I take a rather dim view of logic (it's just a flower that smells bad), but in this case logic is not even to blame. > were programmed by evolution. Such conflicts are inevitable. Human > introspection on human intelligence is limited by the mathematical fact that a > program cannot simulate itself. Your logic chain is rather rusty. Needs more oil. -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org";>leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE ----- This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?member_id=231415&user_secret=fabd7936
