On 16 Feb 2014, at 00:06, Craig Weinberg wrote:
On Saturday, February 15, 2014 3:43:29 PM UTC-5, David Nyman wrote:
On 15 February 2014 18:32, Craig Weinberg <whats...@gmail.com> wrote:
You can't copy awareness. Awareness is what is uncopyable, not just
because awareness is special, but because it is ontologically
perpendicular to the possibility of simulation. All attempts to copy
awareness result in a doll.
Does that then entail that if a conscious amoeba were to fission,
the resulting two amoebae would be unconscious? Or only one of them?
That's not a copy of an amoeba, reproducing its body is part of what
an amoeba does.
But the evidences we have is that amoeba use the Dx = "xx" method for
the self-copy (indeed I discovered it by looking at amoeba and reading
book on molecular biology, before finding the logicians got it).
Copy and self-copy are different, for machines too, but in the case
under study, this does not entail any observable difference, and if
you are right, it means that the copy doll will be a zombie.
Bruno
David
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