Re: Immortality

From: Damien Broderick (d.broderick@english.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Fri Dec 08 2000 - 22:37:19 MST


At 11:48 AM 9/12/00 +0930, Emlyun tried hard but missed the cigar:

>With an mp3, the file itself is not analogous to consciousness. Rather,
>consciousness is analogous to one instance of the music pouring forth from
>your sound system.

Nup. It'd have to be re-entrant and [at least potentially] self-modifying.

IMHO.

Damien Broderick
[the singer not the song]



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