naasking comments on [link] Scott Aaronson on free will - Less Wrong

20 Post author: DanielVarga 10 June 2013 11:24PM

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Comment author: naasking 16 June 2013 03:24:47PM 0 points [-]

"Copy" implies having more than 1 object : The Copy and the Original at the same point of time, but not space.

Why preference space over time? Time is just another dimension after all. buybuydandavis's definition of "copy" seems to avoiding preference for a particular dimension, and so seems more general.

Comment author: Eugine_Nier 18 June 2013 12:17:43AM 3 points [-]

You may want to read up on the no-cloning theorem in quantum mechanics.

The simple answer to your question is that time interacts differently with causality from space.