Re: The Copy Question

From: James R. Andrix (andrix@paradox.net)
Date: Tue Aug 03 1999 - 20:47:18 MDT


>>A red ball produces red thus 1 red ball X 2 does not equal 2 reds.
>
>1 red ball X 2 = 2 red balls
>

I think the point was that even if it's a different BRAIN, it's the same
_consciousness_. (unless they're both running at the same time in which
case they diverge.)

For instance, if I have a Foo web server that serves the foo pages, I can
stop it, transfer all the files to a new system, and restart them there,
and the foo pages never died. (and we all know consciousness isn't any more
complex than serving web pages ;-)

The point is that the actual _physical hardware_ your running on doesn't
matter (IMO) It's that A)it's capable of being a brain and B) it's running
your data/code.

quality of dialog? I was waiting to learn division!



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