[ExI] Quantum consciousness, quantum mysticism, and transhumanist engineering

[Will Steinberg]

On Apr 4, 2017 12:34, "John Clark" <johnkclark at gmail.com> wrote:

On Tue, Apr 4, 2017 at 10:33 AM, Will Steinberg <steinberg.will at gmail.com>
wrote:


> ​> ​
> if a tornado a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away assembled a
> conformation of matter identical to a copy of a book of the play 'Hamlet' I
> own, the former conformation would "not be" Hamlet while the copy I have
> "would be" Hamlet.
>

​Both books are made of atoms, mostly hydrogen carbon and oxygen, and
science can not tell the difference between one atom of the same element
and another. So if in the middle of the night I exchanged your book with
one from a galaxy far far ​away how could you do what science can not and
detect a difference the next morning?

 John K Clark




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Then the book I have becomes Hamlet, and the book I used to have is still
Hamlet.  As long as it's ever been observed as Hamlet, it retains that
meaning.
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