From: Eugen Leitl (eugen@leitl.org)
Date: Fri Nov 01 2002 - 12:20:52 MST
On Fri, 1 Nov 2002, gts wrote:
> It is always useful and practical to state the truth. In this case I
> understand the truth to be that non-identical persons cannot share the
> same personal identity.
Identity doesn't depend on location, though. Identity in an information
processing system is the evolution of state, and it's independent of the
physical location. Two synchronized identical computers execute exactly
the same program. At each clock cycle the comparison at logic signal level
is exactly the same.
Once you agree on that point, we can move on to animals.
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