<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">Define “anything”. Any physical thing? Not yet. A bit of code? I’d like to hope so. <br><br><div dir="ltr">SR Ballard</div><div dir="ltr"><br>On May 27, 2020, at 2:24 PM, William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">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</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, May 27, 2020 at 1:49 PM Ben via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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On 27/05/2020 17:33, bill w wrote:<br>
<blockquote type="cite"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">we
are pretending that a perfect copy can be made, and that is
wrong too. So we are dealing hypothetically just for fun. </span></blockquote>
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It's a thought-experiment, of an idealised situation. Hypothetical,
yes, but not just for fun. There's a serious purpose to it.<br>
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Ben Zaiboc</pre>
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