Re: duplicatability or copying is problematic

2004-06-17 Thread Bruno Marchal
Hi Stephen, At 21:44 16/06/04 -0400, Stephen Paul King wrote: BM (previous) Giving that the Comp, through the UDA  (for exemple) , leads to Monistic idealism, I think the use of the word "epiphenomenon" could be misleading (it is used more in the non interactive dualist approach of the mind body

Re: duplicatability or copying is problematic

2004-06-16 Thread Bruno Marchal
At 18:23 15/06/04 -0400, Stephen Paul King wrote: Dear George,   BM: The post is addressed to George, but concern "my thesis". May I make some comments? I put "my thesis" in quotes because it is really the Sound Universal (Turing) Machine's thesis, you know.   ... or will know ;) "Turing"

Re: duplicatability or copying is problematic

2004-06-15 Thread Stephen Paul King
orge Levy To: Everything List Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 2004 4:25 PM Subject: Re: duplicatability or copying is problematic Hi StephenLet me add my grain of salt to Bruno's post. The No Cloning Theorem applies to the physical duplication but not necessarily to the duplica

Re: duplicatability or copying is problematic

2004-06-15 Thread George Levy
Hi Stephen Let me add my grain of salt to Bruno's post. The No Cloning Theorem applies to the physical duplication but not necessarily to the duplication of information that is carried by a physical substrate. For example, you could very well make a copy of a DVD that reproduces exactly the in

Re: duplicatability or copying is problematic

2004-06-15 Thread Kory Heath
At 01:25 PM 6/14/2004, Stephen Paul King wrote: Dear Bruno, Does your thesis survive without the notion of duplicatability or copying? As I have pointed out, QM does not allow duplication and I am hard pressed to understand how duplication can be carried out in classical physics. If computat

Re: duplicatability or copying is problematic

2004-06-15 Thread Bruno Marchal
Dear Stephen, At 13:25 14/06/04 -0400, You (Stephen Paul King) wrote: Dear Bruno, Does your thesis survive without the notion of duplicatability or copying? As I have pointed out, QM does not allow duplication and I am hard pressed to understand how duplication can be carried out in classica

duplicatability or copying is problematic

2004-06-14 Thread Stephen Paul King
Dear Bruno,       Does your thesis survive without the notion of duplicatability or copying? As I have pointed out, QM does not allow duplication and I am hard pressed to understand how duplication can be carried out in classical physics.     If we merely consider the Platonia of mathematic