[email protected] wrote: ... and I thought I was clear on how I defined 'perfect duplication'? ... Besides, it is really theoretical at this point because we lack the technology to do such a thing. Maybe once we can ...
Unfortunately, one can make a strong argument that it is not even theoretically possible. The Heisenberg uncertainty principle says that one cannot control both position and velocity (i.e. energy) of an atomic or subatomic particle (e.g. the valence electrons that participate in neural operation) with perfect precision. And even if you tried, you could not check the accuracy of your duplicate. Behavior of the two _nearly_ duplicate systems would soon diverge owing to quantum effects. It's unclear whether that divergence would cause diferent macro behavior -- indeed that's a very interesting question -- but in physics there is no such thing as a "perfect" copy. Nor in mouthpiece copies, but that's a different issue. _______________________________________________ post: [email protected] unsubscribe or set options at https://pegasus.memphis.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
