[ExI] Is a copy of you really you?

[Stathis Papaioannou]

On Thu, 28 May 2020 at 05:26, 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
>

Not a perfect copy, but a good enough copy. A photocopier, for example,
makes good enough copies of documents.

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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