alt Hacker NewsElementary particles are suspiciously indistinguishable, so even if you could copy an electron, you wouldn't even be able to tell!
Elementary particles are suspiciously indistinguishable, so even if you could copy an electron, you wouldn't even be able to tell!
They meant this, which refers to copying the state of a particle into another (already existing) particle
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-cloning_theorem
And basically, about consciousness, what they said is true if our brain state fundamentally depends on quantum effects (which I personally don't believe, as I don't think evolution is sophisticated enough to make a quantum computer)