On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 11:15 PM, Stephen P. King <[email protected]>wrote:
>If there is Identity via fixed point, then there is a "you' involved in > some capacity. It just might not be belonging to an entity that some people > denote as "John Clark"; it could be "Atom of Hydrogen". This rule applies > to anything that have a SWF > If I took a billion hydrogen atoms from your brain and a billion hydrogen atoms that were used to inflate the Hindenburg Zeppelin and cooled all of them down so much they formed a Bose Einstein Condensate and then warmed them up again there would be no way to know even in theory (much less in practice) which atoms came from you and which atoms came from the giant gas bag. If atoms have no individuality I don't see how in the world they could confer this interesting property to us. **When atoms form a Bose Einstein Condensation the atoms individuality is lost. Before you had two billion atoms, two billion things, two billion Schrodinger quantum wave functions; but when the condensate is formed you only have one thing and one Schrodinger wave function. When you warm it up again the atoms come back but it is impossible even in theory to know which atom is which, the information about their individual history has been erased from the universe (assuming the knowledge that this atom came from Stephen and this other atom came from Hindenburg can even be said to be information in the first place). 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 [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.
