Re: LS Program: Instant cloning

From: Magnus Berg (McMagnus@hem2.passagen.se)
Date: Mon Feb 08 1999 - 22:43:56 GMT


Hi Boone and Squad

You wrote:
> Why is this so? I agree that we can't copy DQ, but wouldn't our clone
> meet DQ upon his first thought or step, just as the rest of us? If you
> say no, it would seem to imply that the DQ I experience is unique from
> the DQ you experience -- that, however, is not a leap I want to take; it
> would only end in some form of Aristotlian classification of different
> "types of DQ," seemingly violating the proposed solution to SOM.

No, I didn't mean to imply that there are several kinds of DQ.
Perhaps I was mistaken in the way I compared the clone with a CD.
The clone's heart would beat by itself, the blood would flow through
its veins, it doesn't need a CD player. Or rather, the clone will
play itself by just existing, and in playing itself and interacting
with the reality around it, it will be dynamic.

> Once again, I must ask why this is so. If we could copy exactly all
> four levels (as proposed as possible in the first quote) the clone would
> be identical to the original at time = 0, just like a static CD or
> computer program.

Yes it would, but I'm not sure we can create exact copies of every
pattern that makes us human. I'm a little vague on the specifics but
that's because I'm on pretty loose grounds here.

> Not nearly as complex as a "human soul," but I think relevant, is
> another quirk of Quantum Mechanics. A single particle can exist
> simultaneously in two different places.

Are you sure about this? I thought this was true only when the particle
was superpositioned, not "after" an observation. And since we need to
observe the particle to make a copy, it can't be on two different places.?

        Magnus

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