[ExI] simulation as an improvement over reality.

Stathis Papaioannou stathisp at gmail.com
Thu Jan 6 22:52:04 UTC 2011


On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 10:11 PM, scerir <scerir at alice.it> wrote:
> Stathis writes:
>>
>> That is, instead of saying that you survive because a copy lives
>> on with your mental qualities you [Damien] prefer to say that since
>> you self-evidently survive in ordinary life you can't really be a copy.
>> This would not be so problematic if applied consistently, but it is
>> not. In the case of destructive teleportation the sequence of
>> reasoning is reversed: the self-evident belief is that you are a copy,
>> so it follows that the belief that you have survived must be false.
>
> By "destructive teleportation" do you mean quantum teleportation?
> Asking this because, in this case, the quantum state of the original
> would be destroyed, but not the "meat" (and his "consciousness"?)
> and recreated, at a distance, provided there is enough "meat" there.
> s.

Either quantum teleportation or classical teleportation with
destruction of the original in the scanning process.


-- 
Stathis Papaioannou



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