[ExI] quantum brains

Samantha Atkins sjatkins at mac.com
Wed Jan 6 18:56:56 UTC 2010


On Jan 5, 2010, at 2:10 PM, Damien Broderick wrote:

> On 1/5/2010 3:25 PM, Stathis Papaioannou wrote:
> 
>> That would make mind uploading impossible. It might still be possible to
>> replicate a mind, but it wouln't have all the advantages of software.
> 
> Yes, it's a disheartening thought. Unless minds are already being copied on a time-sharing entanglement basis through whatever medium psi operates in--which <gasp> opens the way to a sort of version of (QT-instantiated) souls, maybe, causing John Clark to give up on me finally as a hopeless lost cause.

Nature came up with mysterious ju-ju X but humans, a product of ju-ju X can't build anything else also incorporating X.  Yeah, right.

- s



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