[extropy-chat] "Dead Time" of the Brain.

[Heartland]

Hi Jeffrey,

Jeffrey:
>  "So *how exactly* can a "copy" be distinguished from an (recently dead) 
> "original"?

By tracking trajectories of separate instances of mind object, of course.

Jeffrey:
>  Subjectively there is no difference. Objectively there is no difference. The 
> copy detects no difference. The dead original detects no difference... obviously. 
> So, where can the difference possibly lie?

Wait. The whole purpose of trajectories is that they *do* give an objective 
observer reliable means of distinguishing copy from the original.

Let me give you a simple example which you could then extrapolate to a mind object. 
Assume arbitrary 4D point x=0, y=0, z=0, t=0. There is a helium atom at point 
x1,y1,z1,t1. There is also another helium atom at point x2,y2,z2,t2. Assuming these 
atoms are not next to each other and cooled down to 0K, all the x,y,z,t coordinates 
for both atoms can never be equal. And since they will never be equal then this is 
how an objective observer could theoretically distinguish one atom from the other, 
one instance of an object from the other.

S.

P.S. Did you get my last response to you where I explain what I mean by mind object 
and brain object? If not, it's probably in the archives.