Dear Jonathan, Brent and Stathis,
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From: "Brent Meeker"
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Sent: Sunday, February 22, 2009 2:02 AM
Subject: Re: Copying?
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> Stathis Papaioannou wrote:
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>> But the brain changes from moment to moment due to chemical reactions
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Stephen,
you've hit a nerve with *'copying':*
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*Fundamental *questions:
*1.WHO *(what) is copying and *HOW*?
2.*INTO* what(?) is copying being done?
Then are continuing questions:
3. Does the 'COPY' (to be considerably identical) have identical
interconnective circumstances as does the 'origina
Stathis Papaioannou wrote:
> 2009/2/22 Stephen Paul King :
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>> Ok, my difficulty lies in the notion of "copying". If we are going to
>> use a method X to derive a conclusion, does it not make sense that X must be
>> sound? QM forbids the cloning or copying of states:
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>> http://en.wik
2009/2/22 Stephen Paul King :
> Ok, my difficulty lies in the notion of "copying". If we are going to
> use a method X to derive a conclusion, does it not make sense that X must be
> sound? QM forbids the cloning or copying of states:
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> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_cloning_theorem
>
> "
On Sat, 2009-02-21 at 15:25 -0500, Stephen Paul King wrote:
> Does this allow us to recover our method X? No, because unless the
> copy is "identical", not just "approximate", we can not conclude that
> any notion of continuance of consciousness might obtain.
It is possible (I think likely) th
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