From: Robert J. Bradbury (bradbury@aeiveos.com)
Date: Tue Apr 08 2003 - 18:13:02 MDT
On Wed, 9 Apr 2003, scerir wrote, a lovely set of comments
involving quantum concepts that I'm reasonably sure I
will have a fair amount of trouble understanding.
So Extro list -- we have a toss-up for "most difficult
post of the week" -- beteen scerir and Robin Hanson I
would argue.
> The point, imo, is 'fidelity'.
*But* unless you want to invoke Penrose that there is something
significant going on at the quantum level -- then from a
biological standpoint it seems *highly* unlikely that there
will be a problem so long as I reassemble the copy with
most of the atoms in their same locations.
They should *not* have to be the same atoms (pointing out
a problem with one of Lee's "levels") but allows teleporting
to be an information transmission problem and not a matter
transmission problem (which gets more expensive). Now
the problem does arise that the atomic structure of the
human body is a *large* amount of information -- I've
never done the calculation but I strongly suspect that
even using wavelength-division multiplexing on a fiber
cable (or a bunch of fiber cables) it is still going
to take you a *LONG* time to send the data content
(and don't even begin to talk about radio transmission
or you will have me ROTFL). So there *WILL* need to
be data compression -- and I suspect some of it will
be like JPEG compression -- lossy. So there becomes
an interesting set of tradeoffs with cloning/teleporting --
you can get there fast but you may not really be yourself
or you can take the slow boat to your destination and
have missed the party by the time you arrive.
Robert
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