On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 meekerdb <[email protected]> wrote: >> You make a big deal about duplicating chambers and what city you end up >> in and make all sorts of mystical conclusions from it; but all it comes >> down to is the fact that different data streams (like one coming from >> Washington and another from Moscow) will result in different conclusions >> (like I am in Washington or I am in Moscow) when the calculation is >> concluded. >> > > > It just boils down to: if you can be duplicated >
Well of course you can be duplicated!! I find it astonishing that in the 21'st century the average person still thinks this question deserves further debate. > Scott Aaronson dismisses the problem by concentrating on the idea that > duplication must be duplication of the quantum state, so that the > no-cloning theorm applies. > If you need to stay in the same quantum state to retain your identity then you would be changing into a different person many millions of trillions a time a second. And if you never changed, if you always remained in the same quantum state, then you couldn't think, thought needs change. John K Clark > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
