On 10/3/2015 11:55 AM, Jason Resch wrote:
On Sat, Oct 3, 2015 at 11:43 AM, John Clark <johnkcl...@gmail.com
<mailto:johnkcl...@gmail.com>> wrote:
On Sat, Oct 3, 2015 Bruce Kellett <bhkell...@optusnet.com.au
<mailto:bhkell...@optusnet.com.au>>wrote:
>
Information is physical.
True, and nothing physical can be transferred faster than light
so we can never effect things more distant than 13.8 billion light
years
and they can never effect us.
>
If there is no transfer of information
It is not always necessary to transfer information for 2 things
to be identical. There are only a finite number of ways a finite
number of atoms can be arranged in a finite volume, so if the
universe is infinite and not just very very big then a gargantuan
(but still finite) number of light years away there must be a
collection of atoms identical to
Bruce Kellett
, in fact there are an infinite number of them. And at even
larger (but still finite) distances a volume of space with a
radius of 13.8 billion light years centered on one of those
Bruce Kellett
s is identical to the
volume of space with a radius of 13.8 billion light years centered on
this
Bruce Kellett
. And there are an infinite number of them too.
>
there is no way one could test what the copy thought.
There is no way to know directly what your next door neighbor is
thinking but you can usually make a pretty good guess, and if a
copy of you is physically identical to you then it's a pretty good
guess he's thinking the same thing you are.
But you're assuming the copy is in an evironment equivalent this world.
Suppose this Bruce Kellet copy were in a world just like this EXCEPT
that everybody in his world knew him as John Clark?
Brent
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