On 21 August 2014 02:44, Bruno Marchal <[email protected]> wrote: > On 20 Aug 2014, at 01:05, meekerdb wrote: > > On 8/19/2014 3:57 PM, LizR wrote: > > Why can't you make a copy? (Is that "in practice, until the next > breakthrough comes along", or is it impossible even in principle, like > non-clonable quantum systems?) > > Not in principle. But as I read it the network was made by a > self-assembly process that is random. I suppose that after you had trained > one you could then analyze and map it and make a copy by some other means. > But then it's not clear that wouldn't have been easier to start with known > network and train it. > > That is very plausible, and that is why for complex person, it is easier > to do babies than adults. But more many animals, enough simple, nature > reproduced through tiny adults, in one or to phases/metamorphoses, like > with insects. Spiders too makes tiny adults, with all the knowledge needed > to survive. Those are persons, but psychological clone, with few ability > to, learn, although some spiders are more in between, they can learn to > stop trying to mate their image in a mirror, for example. > > I've known some humans who have that problem, though not quite as literally.
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