From: Eugen Leitl (eugen@leitl.org)
Date: Tue Oct 29 2002 - 16:27:45 MST
On Tue, 29 Oct 2002, Charles Hixson wrote:
> It is important to get the definitions straight, or there will never be
> an agreement. Still, given that, perhaps one shouldn't yet expect there
> to be any agreement. The duplication of identities is not yet possible,
You'll observe that I've used 'upload' as a shorthand for evolution of
discrete deterministic system. As such it is very possible, and in fact
rather trivial.
I'd wish people would stop get lost in QM and atomic and neuron debates,
and consider the issue in terms of a machine vision version of SHRDLU
driving robot arm in blocks world in machina, and in reality.
In practice you don't have to do an experiment, because it's trivial to
realize what will happen in a gedanken. This is the domain to do start
discussions in.
Once we agree on definitions, and what would happen in above simple
context, the bridge to atoms and neurons is rather short.
> so we don't really have any idea what the possibilities and constraints
> would be. At this point, perhaps the important thing is to consider all
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