On Oct 30, 2008, at 10:06 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote:
> But ok, perhaps I have make some progress lately, and I will answer
> that the probability remains invariant for that too. The probability
> remains equal to 1/2 in the imperfect duplication (assuming 1/2 is
> the perfect one).
> But of course you have to accept that if a simple teleportation is
> done imperfectly (without duplication), but without killing you, the
> probability of surviving is one (despite you get blind, deaf,
> amnesic and paralytic, for example).
This is the position I was arguing against in my earlier post. Let's
stick with simple teleportation, without duplication. If the data is
scrambled so much that the thing that ends up on the other side is
just a puddle of goo, then my probability of surviving the
teleportation is 0%. It's functionally equivalent to just killing me
at the first teleporter and not sending any data over. (Do you agree?)
If the probability of me surviving when an imperfect copy is made is
still 100%, then there's some point of "imperfection" at which my
chances of surviving suddenly shift from 100% to 0%. This change will
be marked by (say) the difference of a single molecule (or bit of
data, or whatever). I don't see how that can be correct.
-- Kory
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