Le 05-juin-05, à 19:45, Lee Corbin a écrit :
Bruno provides the exercise
I notice that many people seek refuge in the no-copying theorem of
QM.
Exercise: 1) Show by a qualitative informal reasoning that if we are
Turing emulable then a no-cloning theorem is a necessity.
My best guess
Le 03-juin-05, à 06:20, Lee Corbin a écrit :
[Stephen:] What if I, or any one else's 1st person aspect, can not
be copied?
If the operation of copying is impossible, what is the status of all
of these thought experiments?
I notice that many people seek refuge in the no-copying theorem of
Le 05-juin-05, à 01:04, Lee Corbin a écrit :
This is the central problem from those who are deeply concerned as
to *why* 1st person experiences exist. Too bad that to me, it's
just obvious that they must. I literally cannot conceive of how
it could be different! (Poor me, I suppose---in
Bruno provides the exercise
I notice that many people seek refuge in the no-copying theorem of
QM.
Exercise: 1) Show by a qualitative informal reasoning that if we are
Turing emulable then a no-cloning theorem is a necessity.
My best guess right now? Your challenge would be a futile
R. Miller writes
Lee Corbin wrote:
Stephen writes
I really do not want to be a stick-in-the-mud here,
but what do we base the idea that copies could
exist upon?
It is a conjecture called functionalism (or one of its close variants).
Functionalism, at least, in the social
At 12:36 PM 6/4/2005, Lee Corbin wrote:
R. Miller writes
Lee Corbin wrote:
Exposure to a nuclear detonation at 4000 yds typically kills about 1 in a
million cells. When that happens, you die. I would suggest that is a
bad
metaphor.
Well, my numbers, above, are *entirely* different
Stephen writes
Stephen writes
I really do not want to be a stick-in-the-mud here, but
what do we base the idea that copies could exist upon?
Don't worry about not going along with someone's program ;-)
I think that you're just being polite by calling yourself
a stick-in-the-mud. Why,
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Stephen writes
I really do not want to be a stick-in-the-mud here, but what do we
R. Miller writes (quoting Lee Corbin):
If someone can teleport me back and forth from work to home, I'll
be happy to go along even if 1 atom in every thousand cells of mine
doesn't get copied.
Exposure to a nuclear detonation at 4000 yds typically kills about 1 in a
million cells. When that
At 10:58 PM 6/3/2005, you wrote:
R. Miller writes (quoting Lee Corbin):
If someone can teleport me back and forth from work to home, I'll
be happy to go along even if 1 atom in every thousand cells of mine
doesn't get copied.
Exposure to a nuclear detonation at 4000 yds typically kills
At 11:20 PM 6/2/2005, Lee Corbin wrote:
Stephen writes
I really do not want to be a stick-in-the-mud here, but what do we
base
the idea that copies could exist upon?
It is a conjecture called functionalism (or one of its close variants).
Functionalism, at least, in the social
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