From: Lee Corbin (lcorbin@tsoft.com)
Date: Wed Jun 12 2002 - 06:33:33 MDT
Forrest Bishop writes
> On Mon, 10 Jun 2002, Lee Corbin wrote:
>
> > 2. You are informed by the OS that you have been scheduled
> > to run exactly twice in the history of the universe.
> > Thus, *this* may be the first or second time from your
> > perspective (although since they're identical, the point
> > is moot, and I give it only for the purpose of description).
>
> A conscious entity cannot be run identically twice in
> the history of the universe- each run occupies a unique
> spacetime interval with unique external interactions.
> This unrepeatable input alters the 'program' for each
> run differently.
I was assuming that participants in this thread equated,
as I do, conscious experience with the execution of some
particular computer program, e.g. a particular Turing
Machine. Due to quantum mechanics, what you say is true:
there cannot be precisely equivalent runs using standard
implementations of living beings, i.e. with biological
materials. However, precisely identical program executions
can obtain.
Lee
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