On Sun, Nov 01, 2015 at 08:22:13AM -0800, PGC wrote: > > The questions are comp related. I don't know why you *wouldn't* find it > interesting as somebody who has written on duplication in comp context, > even if you don't buy Samiya's take. PGC >
Samiya was referring to the well-known phenomena of parthenogenesis, which can be understood as a natural form of cloning. Biologists get excited about this, because sexual reproduction is still a rather mysterious fact of the biological world, and there have been examples of quite complex animals doing away with sex altogether (the classic example is certain species of shark). It has nothing to do with comp duplication, which are thought experiments about duplicating conscious experiences, not genetic cloning, which is as old as the hills - as any twin can attest. Cheers -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Professor of Mathematics hpco...@hpcoders.com.au University of New South Wales http://www.hpcoders.com.au ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- 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.
