Re: duplicates are the "same"?

From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Fri Jun 01 2001 - 10:55:09 MDT


My favorite quote on this subject:

"But I am not an object. I am not a noun, I am an adjective. I am the way
matter behaves when it is organized in a John K Clark-ish way. At the
present time only one chunk of matter in the universe behaves that way;
someday that could change."
 -- John K Clark

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Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence



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