RE: Functionalism and People as Programs

From: rmiller <rmiller.domain.name.hidden>
Date: Sat, 04 Jun 2005 14:48:23 -0500

At 12:36 PM 6/4/2005, Lee Corbin wrote:
>R. Miller writes
>
> > Lee Corbin wrote:
>
> >
> > Exposure to a nuclear detonation at 4000 yds typically kills about 1 in a
> > million cells. When that happens, you die. I would suggest that is a
> bad
> > metaphor.
>
>Well, my numbers, above, are *entirely* different from yours. One in a million
>cells is a *terrible* loss. But one atom? There are 10^14 atoms per cell.
>(And 10^14 cells in a typical human.) I would stick with my numbers.
>But in case you are somehow right, and that each cell would be wrecked
>by the loss of a single atom, my point can be made by relaxing the
>numbers: replace what I've written by "I'll be happy to teleport even
>if 100 trillion atoms are destroyed: a whole cell, gone".

Lee,
As I indicated earlier, I was out to lunch on that one-in-a-million
cells/atoms deal. As I understand it, one cell killed out of a million is
lethal, however.

>R.
Received on Sat Jun 04 2005 - 15:55:51 PDT