On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 meekerdb <meeke...@verizon.net> wrote: >> You make a big deal about duplicating chambers and what city you end up >> in and make all sorts of mystical conclusions from it; but all it comes >> down to is the fact that different data streams (like one coming from >> Washington and another from Moscow) will result in different conclusions >> (like I am in Washington or I am in Moscow) when the calculation is >> concluded. >> > > > It just boils down to: if you can be duplicated >
Well of course you can be duplicated!! I find it astonishing that in the 21'st century the average person still thinks this question deserves further debate. > Scott Aaronson dismisses the problem by concentrating on the idea that > duplication must be duplication of the quantum state, so that the > no-cloning theorm applies. > If you need to stay in the same quantum state to retain your identity then you would be changing into a different person many millions of trillions a time a second. And if you never changed, if you always remained in the same quantum state, then you couldn't think, thought needs change. John K Clark > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
