On Saturday, April 25, 2015, Quentin Anciaux <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > 2015-04-24 23:07 GMT+02:00 Stathis Papaioannou <[email protected] > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');>>: > >> >> >> On Friday, April 24, 2015, spudboy100 via Everything List < >> [email protected] >> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');>> >> 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) > The no clone theorem refers to physical copying, so it isn't relevant if consciousness is due to something else, like an immaterial soul. -- Stathis Papaioannou -- 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/d/optout.
