[ExI] simulation as an improvement over reality.

Samantha Atkins sjatkins at mac.com
Sat Jan 1 16:31:27 UTC 2011


On Dec 31, 2010, at 9:53 PM, John Clark wrote:

> On Dec 31, 2010, at 5:28 PM, The Avantguardian wrote:
> 
>> The soul? Is that what you think this is about? 
> 
> Yes, that is exactly what I think this is about. You say the copy is perfect but it is nevertheless missing something; leaving aside the obvious illogic of such a thing, what exactly is this secret sauce that the original has that the copy does not? You say it is not information, and you'd better say it is not atoms or you will end up inundated in absurdities, so this mysterious ingredient must be something else entirely and it is of enormous importance too, but for some unknown reason it cannot be explained or even detected by the scientific method. There is already a word in the English language for something like that, but I can't really blame you, I'd feel pretty foolish using The Word That Must Not Be Named too. 

Why drag soul into this?  A perfect copy is not the original.  That is what this unending discussion seems to sum up to.  OK.  Fine.  Next.  

- s
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