On 10/3/2015 11:55 AM, Jason Resch wrote:
On Sat, Oct 3, 2015 at 11:43 AM, John Clark <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:On Sat, Oct 3, 2015 Bruce Kellett <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>wrote: > Information is physical. True, and nothing physical can be transferred faster than light so we can never effect things more distant than 13.8 billion light years and they can never effect us. > If there is no transfer of information It is not always necessary to transfer information for 2 things to be identical. There are only a finite number of ways a finite number of atoms can be arranged in a finite volume, so if the universe is infinite and not just very very big then a gargantuan (but still finite) number of light years away there must be a collection of atoms identical to Bruce Kellett , in fact there are an infinite number of them. And at even larger (but still finite) distances a volume of space with a radius of 13.8 billion light years centered on one of those Bruce Kellett s is identical to the volume of space with a radius of 13.8 billion light years centered on this Bruce Kellett . And there are an infinite number of them too. > there is no way one could test what the copy thought.There is no way to know directly what your next door neighbor is thinking but you can usually make a pretty good guess, and if a copy of you is physically identical to you then it's a pretty good guess he's thinking the same thing you are.
But you're assuming the copy is in an evironment equivalent this world. Suppose this Bruce Kellet copy were in a world just like this EXCEPT that everybody in his world knew him as John Clark?
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