Stathis Papaioannou wrote:
> I think I see what you mean, but it's as much a problem for the intact and > normally functioning brain as it is for teleportation experiments, isn't it? > For that > matter, it's as much a problem for a computer that gets teleported around in > the > course of its calculations. If the teleportation time slices are of > femtosecond > duration, then there is nothing within a particular slice to mark it as part > of the > calculation 5464*2342. Yet a computer strobing in and out of existence like > this, > technical problems aside, will still come up with the right answer. Indeed, > if the > computer only materialised in the final femtosecond it would have the right > answer > and if a log were kept, evidence of how it arrived at the answer. Do you > believe > that there must be some super-computation information in each femtosecond > slice > that binds them all together? A piece of paper with 12796688 on it has the right answer. But it didn't computer it. I don't have to believe that the end-state of the computation is the result of a genuine computational process, if it isn't underpinned by a genuine physical process. > Stathis Papaioannou > _________________________________________________________________ > Be one of the first to try Windows Live Mail. > http://ideas.live.com/programpage.aspx?versionId=5d21c51a-b161-4314-9b0e-4911fb2b2e6d --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
