Mark Peaty wrote:
> SP: 'Getting back to the original question about teleportation
> experiments, are you saying that it would be impossible, or just
> technically very difficult to preserve personal identity whilst
> undergoing such a process? As Brent pointed out, technical difficulty is
> not an issue in thought experiments. ,
>
> MP: I have answered this, in responding to Brent. In summary I say: if
> it is just A [any old] rendition of a human you want, then given that
> thought experiments allow that all practical challenges can be overcome,
> the answer is Yes! On the other hand if the strict requirement of an
> exact copy of a particular person is required to be output then it
> becomes a question of whether or not truly infinite computing power is
> required to calculate the changes occurring within the original at scan
> time. If it is then the answer is NO, because infinity is infinity.
But *your* infinity is just *really big*. There are only a finite number of atoms in a person and they have only a finite number of relations. So how can an exact copy require infinite resources?
Brent Meeker
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