On 7/26/2019 3:56 PM, Jason Resch wrote:
On Fri, Jul 26, 2019 at 4:21 PM 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List
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On 7/26/2019 2:07 PM, Jason Resch wrote:
> Here the motivation comes from non-dualistic theories of mind. If
> there is not a magical soul that was breathed into your body, then
> there is no longer an identity, as all matter and patterns are in
> theory copyable.
But they aren't, c.f. Holevo's theorem.
Holevo's theorem, if anything, provides evidence that the mind is
copyable, since there is a finite upper bound on the information
accessible within the brain by the brain.
Unless you think the soul is something that can mystically access
information beyond Holevo's bound.
No, a brain can't even access its own classical state (c.f.
subconsious). But if you copy a brain you will only have half the
information to define the ongoing process, so there will be a difference
in the copies initial state.
Brent
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