2008/10/31 Brent Meeker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > But there are many ways for what comes out of the teleporter to *not* be you. > Most of them are "puddles of goo", but some of them are copies of Bruno or > imperfect copies of me or people who never existed before. > > Suppose it's a copy of you as you were last year - is it 100% you. It's not > 100% the you that went into the machine - but if you're the same person you > were > last year it's 100% you. Of course the point is that you're not the same > "you" > from moment to moment in the sense of strict identity of information down to > the > molecular level, or even the neuron level.
Then the copy that comes out of the teleporter should be similar to the original to the same extent as a version of you is similar to the version of you a moment ago in the course of everyday life. -- Stathis Papaioannou --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
