> On 27 Jul 2019, at 01:27, 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On 7/26/2019 12:24 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: >>> It is even beyond theoretical possibility to copy the quantum state. >> >> And that is necessary with digital mechanism, where to copy any piece of >> matter we would need the entire run of the universal dovetailer. > > No. Holevo's theorem says that we can measure half the information needed to > make a copy. Your theory would say that we need an arbitrarily great > amount...the whole sequence of the UD.
We need the whole UD* to copy *matter*, not my ^personal identity, when assuming digital mechanism. The fact that to copy matter we need the whole UD* is derived from the assumption that we need only a finite amount of information to survive a copying process. Bruno > > Brent > >> Neither matter nor consciousness are Turing emulable, but they are are >> “Turing borrowable” in some sense. > > > -- > 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 view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/2a909b78-bfb9-fa5a-5051-cc8a9083dfef%40verizon.net. -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/84E1131D-4BBF-4DBE-AC28-13C53CE962E9%40ulb.ac.be.
