Re: Identical Copies [was Re: Good exchange with Eliezer]

From: Zero Powers (zero_powers@hotmail.com)
Date: Sat Apr 01 2000 - 11:06:39 MST


>From: "John Clark" <jonkc@worldnet.att.net>
>
>Robert Bradbury <bradbury@genebee.msu.su> Wrote:
>
> >Within milliseconds of the copying process however, neither of them
> >is "an original".
>
>Exactly. It doesn't matter who the original is because you can only have
>a true "original" if there is no change and life by its very nature is
>change.
>In other words, if it's really original then it's dead.

Well, close. In actuality, if it's really an unchanging original it's
nothing but a Platonic abstraction, a sort of universal law. Because
*everything* that physically exists is subject to change.

-Zero

"I like dreams of the future better than the history of the past"
--Thomas Jefferson

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