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From: David Nyman david.ny...@gmail.com
Date: 15 February 2014 23:45
Subject: RE: Better Than the Chinese Room
To: Craig Weinberg whatsons...@gmail.com
Can you give me a principled distinction between reproducing and copying?
David
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Reproducing (especially WRT self-reproduction) involves development:
executing a program that describes the thing being copied to create a copy
of that thing.
Whereas copying merely looks at the original object, and recreates
it. The program (if it can be called a program) doesn't contain any
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