From: Rafal Smigrodzki (rms2g@virginia.edu)
Date: Fri Nov 15 2002 - 15:03:08 MST
gts wrote:
> --- Rafal Smigrodzki <rms2g@virginia.edu> wrote:
>
>> ### I see you are not answering the question I asked
>> - there are roughly 10 to the 26th power versions
>> of gts which differ from each other only in the
>> direction of one electron spin. They are in a
>> superposition of states.
>
> I didn't answer your question because as I said it
> makes no sense to me. You asked me to distinguish
> myself from another gts, but I cannot do so unless I
> measure one. If I measure one then he is no longer in
> a superposition of states.
### Yes, so why do you insist you are a special one, even if you in princple
cannot find out which one you are?
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>
>>> Am I Hugh Hefner if I think my thoughts
>>> are sufficiently similar to his?
>>
>> ### You may decide you are Hugh Hefner. I have no
>> problem with it...
>
> Perhaps you would have no problem with it but
> unfortunately the world would become completely
> nonsensical if we were to substitute this definition
> of "identity" for the common-sense definition.
>
> If you don't believe me then ask Hugh Hefner's
> girlfriends. :-)
>
### Snipping out parts of my statement can make it sound totally stupid, I
agree.
Rafal
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