X-Message-Number: 32505
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Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2010 13:06:16 -0500
Subject: Re: CryoNet #32501 - #32504
From: Freeposity <>

On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 4:00 AM, CryoNet <> wrote:
> CryoNet - Tue 23 Mar 2010
>
>
> Message #32503
> From: 
> Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 13:12:05 EDT
> Subject: Down with Uploading
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> The sufficiency of isomorphism is a  pervasive and clearly wrong
> idea. Isomorphism means roughly same-in-form, and refers  most
> commonly to the fact that, in a computer simulation of a  physical
> object or system, every attribute of the original has a  counterpart
> in  the simulation, and it is therefore allowable to think that the
> simulation is "just as good" as the original and that a  simulated
> person would be alive and conscious.
> Among other fatal afflictions, which I have spelled out  in Youniverse,
> this  idea simply assumes, without proof, that a description or
> representation of a thing is the "same" as the thing.


Please demonstrate how you know you aren't a simulation right now.


Also please explain how your mind is not a collection of memories and
a collection of data processing algorithms.



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