RE: Quantum accident survivor/ personal identity

2003-11-11 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
On 10 November 2003 David Barrett-Lennard wrote: "...It seems to me that the concept of identity is not fundamental to physics. It's useful for classification purposes as long as one doesn't stretch it too far and expose its lack of precision..." David, I used to puzzle over the definition of

Re: Quantum accident survivor

2003-11-11 Thread Eric Cavalcanti
Hi, - Original Message - From: "Hal Finney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Eric Cavalcanti, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, writes: > > In the case of non-destructive-copy experiment, the copy is > > made in a distinct place/time from the original. They could as well be done > > 100,000 years in the future a

Re: Fw: SAS and mathematical existence

2003-11-11 Thread Bruno Marchal
Hi John, > Digitality and its application is human invention and humans APPLY it to the > world. OK, but then the difference between human and non human is also a human invention, and humans apply it to what they see, or believe to see. With a different evolutionary setup of brainfunctions we

Re: Quantum accident survivor

2003-11-11 Thread Dag-Ove Reistad
Hi, - Original Message - From: "Eric Cavalcanti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2003 8:41 PM Subject: Re: Quantum accident survivor > Hi, > - Original Message - > From: "Hal Finney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Eric Cavalcanti, <[EMAIL P

Re: Dark Matter, dark eneggy, & conservation

2003-11-11 Thread Ron McFarland
On 9 Nov 2003 at 16:22, Brent Meeker wrote: > In the intial relativistic models of the origin of the universe, the > matter began with very high energy so it expanded against the pull of > gravity. Taking the zero of energy to be when the matter is > infinitely dispersed, as is usual, the net en