> On 27 Jul 2019, at 01:27, 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List > <everything-list@googlegroups.com> wrote: > > > > On 7/26/2019 12:24 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: >>> It is even beyond theoretical possibility to copy the quantum state. >> >> And that is necessary with digital mechanism, where to copy any piece of >> matter we would need the entire run of the universal dovetailer. > > No. Holevo's theorem says that we can measure half the information needed to > make a copy. Your theory would say that we need an arbitrarily great > amount...the whole sequence of the UD.
We need the whole UD* to copy *matter*, not my ^personal identity, when assuming digital mechanism. The fact that to copy matter we need the whole UD* is derived from the assumption that we need only a finite amount of information to survive a copying process. Bruno > > Brent > >> Neither matter nor consciousness are Turing emulable, but they are are >> “Turing borrowable” in some sense. > > > -- > 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 view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/2a909b78-bfb9-fa5a-5051-cc8a9083dfef%40verizon.net. -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/84E1131D-4BBF-4DBE-AC28-13C53CE962E9%40ulb.ac.be.
