On 26 April 2015 at 02:19, John Clark <johnkcl...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > that is guaranteed if you can duplicate - or, apparently, just simulate >> > - the quantum state of your body > > > That would be VAST overkill! The quantum state of your body changes about a > hundred thousand million billion trillion times every second of your life, > but subjectively it doesn't cause a loss of personal identity, and in a case > like this subjectivity is far more important than objectivity.
That's right - and you can also undergo far greater changes to your brain than those and still survive: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phineas_Gage -- 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 everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
