[MD] How far do you go to preserve individual life?

[ARLO J BENSINGER JR]

[Magnus]
So, what you need to do is to explain how a computer can support intellectual
patterns. 

[Arlo]
The same way a book can. Its a storage mechanism. 

[Magnus]
I mean that a computer's ability to do that is analogous to a human's ability
to do it, it's just the dynamic influence that is completely absent in a
computer.

[Arlo]
I don't think its very analogous at all. One stores, the other generates.

[Magnus]
Then what about a computer? How is a computer able to support an intellectual
pattern like a book, or a design specification for a new car? You can remove it
from the internet, and it will support that book more or less forever. It will
not decay.

[Arlo]
It most certainly will, just over a longer timeframe than you are seeing.

[Magnus]
Duration? Where is this duration mentioned in the MoQ? 

[Arlo]
Its fairly evident that inorganic patterns are more persistent than biological
patterns; a stone tablet will "outlive" a human brain, but both eventually
decay.