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Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2010 21:17:48 EDT
Subject:  a few for 2

2Arcturus wrote in part:
 
>As Kurzweil pointed out, even if consciousness depended on  a standing 
wave, a standing wave can be >emulated. 
 
Secondly, this is not necessarily true, if we are talking about 
a digital computer, as mostly we are. In a computer, information
is quantized, whereas in the "world" matter and space and time 
or spacetime may or my not be--they might be continuous. 
There are scads of competing theories or speculations.
 
Firstly, it doesn't matter; it's either irrelevant to the issue, or  it
helps my thesis. A particular standing wave, or quale or set
of qualia, embodies a consciousness, and if one could be 
adequately copied the copy would be another consciousness.
(And if you could be duplicated atom for atom, the duplicate(s),
being necessarily in a different location in space or/and time,
as well as having different futures, could not be "you" 100%.
Of course, a fractional overlap is the best you can get in
any case. Enjoy.
 
Robert Ettinger
 


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