On 11 Feb 2009, at 20:47, Brent Meeker wrote:
> > Bruno Marchal wrote: >> >> On 11 Feb 2009, at 00:38, Günther Greindl wrote: >> >>> I'm with Mike and Brent. >>> >>> Bruno, giving A1 and A2 mirrors which would show different stuff >>> violates Stathis' assumption of running the _same_ computation - you >>> can't go out of the system. >> >> See my answer to Brent. Once A1 looks at itself in the mirror (and >> thus A2 too, given the protocol). A1 sees MA1 and A2 sees MA2, and >> the >> computation differs. > > If A1 sees MA1 and A2 sees MA2 and they see something different, > i.e. MA1 and > MA2 are distinguishable, then you've violated the hypothesis that the > computations are identical. Right? I did change the protocol to make my point, which concerns only the probability of finding myself by MA1 or by MA2, but not both. Bruno http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to everything-l...@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
