🚀 go-pugleaf

Steven B. Harris wrote:
> 
> In <7iaro1$7oh$1@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> kym@cs.mu.oz.au (Kym HORSELL)
> writes:
> >
> >sbharris@ix.netcom.com(Steven B. Harris) writes:
> >...
...
> >>transmit your information some place and just put all the
> biomolecules
> >>in position (perfectly possible to within thermal noise-- and why be
> >>more acurate than that anyway), and then for the rest of the space
> fill
> >>'er er up with water and salts: that's you.
> >...
> >... Either that, or a copy of a dead you. ;-)
>    Well, how is a copy of a live you going to differ from a copy of a
> dead you?

'sactly. 

Some speculative cell biologists even point at the quantum states
of cell cytoskeletons as containing important information.

The info of positions of all the molecules ain't necessarily
anything that's alive or (say) remembers being "you". Aside from the
various metaphysical questions, the positions of all those nice
electrons -- meaning essentially the picture of the ionisation states of
those
molecules -- can make the difference beteen a live and dead copy
of the same piece of equipment.

R. Kym Horsell
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