[ExI] Is a copy of you really you?

[William Flynn Wallace]

I was thinking mainly of genes.

I wonder if computers hiccup.  There is a thing that happens in our brains
called 'involuntary rest pauses'.  You can test yourself:  just tap a
finger on some surface and keep it up.  Sooner or later you will lose the
rhythm and miss a tap.  Extroverts miss more than introverts.

So if computers have IRPs (Could there be small changes in electricity that
accounts for errors?)
, then a copied code will be short of perfect.  Does this happen this way?
Given enough length of the program I am guessing that errors will happen.
Then you have a bug, I suppose, which you have to fix.

bill w

On Wed, May 27, 2020 at 2:36 PM SR Ballard via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> Define “anything”. Any physical thing? Not yet. A bit of code? I’d like to
> hope so.
>
> SR Ballard
>
> On May 27, 2020, at 2:24 PM, William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>
> Well, answer me this:  can any machine of any kind, computer or not. make
> a perfect copy of anything?   Perfect down to the atomic level.  bill w
>
> On Wed, May 27, 2020 at 1:49 PM Ben via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>
>> On 27/05/2020 17:33, bill w wrote:
>>
>> we are pretending that a perfect copy can be made, and that is wrong
>> too.  So we are dealing hypothetically just for fun.
>>
>>
>> It's a thought-experiment, of an idealised situation. Hypothetical, yes,
>> but not just for fun. There's a serious purpose to it.
>>
>> --
>> Ben Zaiboc
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