Hal Finney replied:
<Not at all, you could be created "from scratch" as an exact match of
your current body/mind. There is no reason why the surrounding world
would have to match. You would experience a discontinuity if the
external world changed, of course.>
Cosmology aside, this is precisely what I never understood from _The
Physics of Immortality_: My body/mind is a product of innumerable
interactions with my environment. How can neural nets, or whatever
Omega might use, spring full-blow like Athena from the head of Zeus
without some kind of interactive growth or training? How can
‘brute-force resurrection’ create something human-level or greater
*that once existed* ‘from scratch’ without also simulating all the
environmental input factors that conditioned that being?
Even if there are only x^y states of ‘matter’ possible and infinite
computational resources at Omega could compute all possible
combinations, how could ‘The System’ ever *select* those
configurations that might have had some resemblance to actual history
(which would seem to be required in order to call this a
‘resurrection’)?
Mark Crosby
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