[ExI] simulation as an improvement over reality.

[Olga Bourlin]

Hilarious!  Thanks ... :)

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From: "Stathis Papaioannou" <stathisp at gmail.com>
Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2011 2:52 PM
To: "ExI chat list" <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org>
Subject: Re: [ExI] simulation as an improvement over reality.

> On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 10:11 PM, scerir <scerir at alice.it> wrote:
>> Stathis writes:
>>>
>>> That is, instead of saying that you survive because a copy lives
>>> on with your mental qualities you [Damien] prefer to say that since
>>> you self-evidently survive in ordinary life you can't really be a copy.
>>> This would not be so problematic if applied consistently, but it is
>>> not. In the case of destructive teleportation the sequence of
>>> reasoning is reversed: the self-evident belief is that you are a copy,
>>> so it follows that the belief that you have survived must be false.
>>
>> By "destructive teleportation" do you mean quantum teleportation?
>> Asking this because, in this case, the quantum state of the original
>> would be destroyed, but not the "meat" (and his "consciousness"?)
>> and recreated, at a distance, provided there is enough "meat" there.
>> s.
> 
> Either quantum teleportation or classical teleportation with
> destruction of the original in the scanning process.
> 
> 
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> Stathis Papaioannou
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