[ExI] simulation as an improvement over reality.

[Mike Dougherty]

2011/1/3 John Clark <jonkc at bellsouth.net>:
> On Jan 1, 2011, at 3:19 PM, Mike Dougherty wrote:
>
> If I make a Perfect Copy(tm) then throw it down a black hole, are we still
> synch'd?
>
> They'd be about as well synched as clocks would be synched if you blew up
> one with a stick of dynamite but not the other. I don't see the point you
> were trying to make and I sure don't see why you brought up something as
> exotic as Black Holes into the discussion.

I was content to leave my comment concluded with a divide-by-zero
error, but since you asked...

The exotic black hole was introduced for the sake of interrupting the
machinery that verifies the copies are synchronized.  Time dilation
from near-lightspeed would be exotic too.  The whole conversation is
pretty much arbitrary anyway, right?  By the time camp A constrains
the experiment enough to provide any conclusive point, camp B cries
foul for having violated a basic principle of their side of the
argument.

I guess it doesn't matter what the residents of either 10kg brick of
computronium are thinking, all we observe is two 10kg bricks of
computronium.  Without a scale we could be fooled by a single 10kg
brick and a cleverly positioned mirror, no?