X-Message-Number: 32505 References: <> 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 > > 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. -- Money isn't speech. A Corporation isn't a person. http://www.movetoamend.org/ Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=32505