John Mikes writes:
Friends:
Siding with Mark (almost?G)
just to a 'wider' view of mentality than implied by
physicalistic - physiologistic - even maybe
comp-related frameworks, indicating the domains we did
not even discovered, but love to disregard. Upon Marks
post
--- Stathis Papaioannou
Mark Peaty writes:
SP: 'Getting back to the original question about teleportation experiments, are
you saying that it would be impossible, or just technically very difficult to
preserve personal identity whilst undergoing such a process? As Brent pointed
out, technical difficulty is not an
Tom Caylor writes:
So you believe that the Qur'an is the literal word of God? What I was hoping
is that
you would say Muhammed was deluded or lying, so that the Qur'an is at best an
impressive piece of literature with some interesting moral teachings: i.e.,
what atheists
say about
Brent: 'But *your* infinity is just *really big*. There are only a
finite number of atoms in a person and they have only a finite number of
relations. So how can an exact copy require infinite resources? '
MP: Well yes, perhaps there are only a finite number of relationships,
but these
Stathis Papaioannou wrote:
Mark Peaty writes:
SP: 'Getting back to the original question about teleportation
experiments, are you saying that it would be impossible, or just
technically very difficult to preserve personal identity whilst
undergoing such a process? As Brent pointed out,
SP: 'The brain manages to maintain identity from moment to moment
without perfect copying or infinite computing power... '
MP: True, up to a point, but I want to quibble about that later [maybe
below, maybe in another posting]. And upon more, [and more, and more,]
mature reflection I can see
Hi, I'm new to this list. Sorry for coming into the conversation
uninvited, but I would like to post some comments on this :) Hope you
don't mind.
Brent Meeker wrote:
And does it even have to be very good? Suppose it made a sloppy copy
of me that left out 90% of my memories - would it still
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From: Brent Meeker
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Subject: Re: The Meaning of Life
(MP)... because infinity is infinity.
But *your* infinity is just *really big*. There are only a finite number of
atoms
Jamie,
thanks for your reflections (I think this is the 8+th or so list we exchange ideas on
since 1988 when our friendship started on Prodigy) and I - sort of - agree with Bruno's
questioning about 'inertia. I think I have an idea to come closer to it: if you include
into that darn Ccness
João Silva writes:
Hi, I'm new to this list. Sorry for coming into the conversation
uninvited, but I would like to post some comments on this :) Hope you
don't mind.
Welcome to the list. Everyone is free to barge into every discussion.
Brent Meeker wrote:
And does it even have to be
Mark Peaty writes (in part):
So back to the question: can I be copied? Answer: More or less yes.
Next question: Is the edition of me that gets copied then flushed away
committing suicide? Answer: Yes
Next question: If the copying did not destroy the original of me then who is
the new
Bruno,
Please be patient for my reply to your question.
I'll compose an answer soon on inertia and change
of inertia and how I reached the notion of
assigning that as the essential-primitive of
Consciousness.
James
--~--~-~--~~~---~--~~
You received this
João Silva wrote:
Hi, I'm new to this list. Sorry for coming into the conversation
uninvited, but I would like to post some comments on this :) Hope you
don't mind.
Brent Meeker wrote:
And does it even have to be very good? Suppose it made a sloppy copy
of me that left out 90% of my
SP: 'Is there anything about how you are feeling to day that makes you
sure that aliens didn't come during the night and replace your body with
an exact copy? Because that is basically what happens naturally anyway,
although it isn't aliens and it takes months rather than overnight:
almost
John,
My email pgm sometimes (as now) balks at quote/copying
material from emails I'm replying to. So I'll do as best
to reply without having your exact words to refer to.
re Bruno's inquiring about how I link changes of inertia
to Csness, I'll do that in a few days.
re Gendankens - I
Stathis Papaioannou wrote:
Tom Caylor writes:
So you believe that the Qur'an is the literal word of God? What I was
hoping is that
you would say Muhammed was deluded or lying, so that the Qur'an is at best
an
impressive piece of literature with some interesting moral teachings: i.e.,
Tom Caylor wrote:
Stathis Papaioannou wrote:
Tom Caylor writes:
So you believe that the Qur'an is the literal word of God? What I
was hoping is that
you would say Muhammed was deluded or lying, so that the Qur'an is
at best an
impressive piece of literature with some interesting
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