Re: Copying?

2009-02-23 Thread Stephen Paul King
Dear Jonathan, Brent and Stathis, - Original Message - From: "Brent Meeker" To: Sent: Sunday, February 22, 2009 2:02 AM Subject: Re: Copying? > > Stathis Papaioannou wrote: >> >> But the brain changes from moment to moment due to chemical reactions >&g

Re: Copying?

2009-02-22 Thread John Mikes
Stephen, you've hit a nerve with *'copying':* ** *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

Re: Copying?

2009-02-21 Thread Brent Meeker
Stathis Papaioannou wrote: > 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: >> >> http://en.wik

Re: Copying?

2009-02-21 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
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: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_cloning_theorem > > "

Re: Copying?

2009-02-21 Thread Johnathan Corgan
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