Bruno states in his paper “The Origin of Physical Laws and Sensations” that “The description encoded at Brussels after the reading-cutting process is just the description of a state of some Turing machine, given that we assume comp. So its description can be duplicated, and the experiencer can be reconstituted simultaneously at two different places, for example Washington and Moscow”.
However to get this Turing state from the human, I suspect that this might result in the destruction of the original – I am not sure just a passive reading is possible. Bruno gives the footnote below. “For an example, it could be the state of a Turing machine emulating some unitary transformation in case the brain, whatever it is, is correctly described by quantum mechanics. This recall that quantum computer does not violate Church thesis, and comp, in its all classical and Platonist form, is not incompatible with the thesis that the brain is a quantum computer (which I doubt). Giving that machine Turing state, it can be recopied, without violating the non cloning theorem of quantum information science”. The unitary transformation alluded to above would need an initial state to operate on in order to enable evolution. This initial state must be obtained from a possibly destructive “read” to obtain configurational data at below the substitution level, I’m not sure that the no clone theorem can be overcome here? -- 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.
