OpenEuphoria

Re: Artificial What?

• Posted by rolf.schroeder at desy.de May 16, 2003
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Robert Craig wrote:
> 
> ...
> They both contain lots of easy-to-read, short essays,
> mostly by computer science people, with
> cute examples, and philosophical thought experiments.
> Things like:
>    
>    - If you step into a Star Trek transporter on Earth
>      and your atoms are separated and scrambled and then
>      beamed up to the Space Station and reassembled exactly, is it
>      really "you" who steps out of the transporter, or is it an
>      exact *copy* of "you", that even "remembers"
>      entering the transporter on earth, and behaves exactly the
>      way people would expect you to behave, and thinks that it is "you".
>      What if different atoms are used on the Space Station,
>      but connected together in exactly same way?
> 

Hi Rob,

this isn't at all a philosophical experiment, the clear answer is given
by physics, quantum mechanics: If atoms are in the same state they are
no more different, their are no 'different' atoms possible then! If the
atoms of two systems are in number and states are the same, then the two
systems (humans) are in the same state and not different at all, they
are identical in that moment (which will change normally very soon).

Philosophy is the thinking about problems which could not be proofed
otherwise.
I got this sentence from a philosopher! Actually, it's no science
therefor.

Have a nice day, Rolf