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On 27/05/2020 23:48, SR Ballard wrote:<br>
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">Then there are no copies.
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">On May 27, 2020, at 1:37 PM, Ben via extropy-chat <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" moz-do-not-send="true"><extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org></a> wrote:
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">On 27/05/2020 17:33, SR Ballard wrote:
If the mother-copy is destroyed and two daughter-copies are created
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">This is the kind of thinking I'm trying to get away from.
In what sense is the mother-copy destroyed? All of it's original molecules are still there (albeit randomly distributed between the two daughter-bodies), all of the information is preserved (x2, now), so where is the destruction? I see none at all.
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No copies? OK, I'm fine with that, but there are two somethings when
before there was one. What do we call them? And how do we regard
them?<br>
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Ben Zaiboc</pre>
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