From: gts (gts_2000@yahoo.com)
Date: Thu Oct 24 2002 - 09:39:29 MDT
Eugen Leitl wrote:
>
> On Thu, 24 Oct 2002, John K Clark wrote:
>
> >
>>> If we were to separate the two bodies we would find they
>>> experience different sensory input.
> >
>> Not if they were equally distant from the center of a
>> symmetrical room, then each would see exactly the same thing
>> the other saw.
>
> Notice that this applies to fully deterministic synchronized
> uploads with fully identical input, or nondeterministic and/or
> not the same input with trajectory forcing, or heavily
> instrumented flesh people with trajectory forcing by
> invasive nanoware (which basically forces them to see the same
> stuff and think in unison, nixing system noise and
> nonidentical input).
>
> In other words, it's a highly construed example. Useful for
> gedanken, but not much else.
Seems to me that that the supposed paradox is explained much more easily
by noting the simple fact that the similarity of their visual
experiences is due only to an optical illusion. The paradox is illusory,
literally. Let them each have access to a compass and then compare their
experiences.
-gts
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