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Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2005 04:14:59 EDT
Subject: Re: CryoNet #26048 To Donaldson

You said:

> I will add that reality is generally so complicated and sometimes 
> unpredictable (at the time something happens) that actually making
> such a simulation may turn out to be impossible. You'd have to 
> simulate not just the person, but the world in which that person
> lives and the people that he/she may meet and converse with, make
> love to, hate, like, dislike, or have as boss or subordinate.

Simulated world is quite another matter, it may be possible or not with 

quantum computers. A brain simulation on "ordinary" elctronics devices will not

"live" in a simulated world, its input and output will be in the real world. It
will act with a robot body, even if the "brain" is not in the robot. To be 

sure, there will be some copies on different system in different places. if the
running computer is destroyed, another will take the work.

Yvan Bozzonetti.


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