On 9/23/2014 10:52 PM, Quentin Anciaux wrote:
And I said it was also functionalism, because it was suggested that copying the arrangement of matter in the same fashion would result in the same consciousness... that could be false even under materialism (because it could be impossible to rearrange matter in the desired way infinitesimally and that no scale was specified at which two arrangement are the same).
QM's no cloning theorem says it would be impossible to make a copy of a brain, a copy faithful to the quantum state. And I think that making an imperfect copy, as QM would permit, would very likely make a difference in the stream of consciousness. In other words the Washington man and the Moscow man, even assuming they were as perfect copies as QM allows, would have divergent thoughts even before they opened the door of their transporter booth. Does this make any difference to the argument - I don't think so.
I wonder if Bruno's UD model of the world implies the same no-cloning theorem? Brent -- 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/d/optout.
