2015-04-24 23:07 GMT+02:00 Stathis Papaioannou <stath...@gmail.com>: > > > On Friday, April 24, 2015, spudboy100 via Everything List < > everything-list@googlegroups.com> wrote: > >> For some, its a conundrum, or in any case see it as a block to cloning, >> or a slam dunk into the trash bin of physics and philosophy. For me, no. > > > Philosophically there is no problem with the no clone theorem, since even > if a perfect copy is needed to preserve consciousness the no clone theorem > does not preclude perfect copying. > > Practically there is no problem with the no clone theorem since your brain > undergoes gross change from moment to moment and you feel that you remain > the same person. > > That's true, unless even in principle what gives rise to consciousness is not duplicable, accessible to us... (It's dubious, since our reality/nature did succeed to make it; at the very least for me). But if reality as it isn doesn't give us access to that (whatever we do, forever, because it is impossible like going faster than the speed of light under relativity, or going before the big bang as the time is beginning with it... and that indeed assumes a theory like computationalism is false), then it is a problem even phisophisically (that is if you still want to follow logic and still want what you're saying to be meaningfull)
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