On Thu, Dec 26, 2002 at 08:21:38PM -0500, Stephen Paul King wrote: > Forgive me if my writting gave you that opinion. I meant to imply that > any mind, including that of a bat, is quantum mechanical and not classical > in its nature. My ideas follow the implications of Hitoshi Kitada's theory > of Local Time.
Please explain how your ideas follow from Hitoshi Kitada's theory of Local Time. Keep in mind that most of us are not familiar with that theory. Also, any quantum computer or physical system can be simulated by a classical computer. So in theory, even if human minds are quanum mechanical, we can simulate a complete human being from conception to adulthood in a classical computer, and then copy him to another classical computer, so the no-cloning theorem doesn't prevent copying of minds. Besides, the no-cloning theorem only says that there's no method for duplicating arbitrary quantum systems in such a way that no statistical test can tell the difference between the original and the copy. There is no evidence that the information that can't be copied are crucial to the workings of a human mind. I think current theories of how the brain works have its information stored in macroscopic states such as neuron connections and neurotransmitter concentrations, which can be copied.