On Thursday, August 21, 2014 9:09:53 AM UTC+10, Liz R wrote: > > On 21 August 2014 02:44, Bruno Marchal <[email protected] <javascript:>> > 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. > > Good one! :D
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