--- "Scott D. Yelich" <scott.domain.name.hidden> wrote:
> On Mon, 15 May 2000, Jacques Mallah wrote:
> > Another way to go is to consider an
> >implementation of a computation, extended over
> >time, as "you". You can't tell which
> >implementation you are just from the
> >available information in an observer-moment.
>
> I strongly disagree with this statement. I
> certainly do believe this is possible, even if we
> aren't practiced at doing it (currently).
You seem to be confusing an implementation with a
computation. I doubt, though, that we could even tell
which computation.
An implementation is when some system does things
such that we would like to say it is equivalent to the
computation being performed. A single computation, in
general, can be implemented many different times by
the same physical system. See my web page for more on
this.
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Received on Tue May 16 2000 - 10:09:39 PDT