On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 3:21 AM, David Nyman <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2 July 2012 17:50, John Clark <[email protected]> wrote: > > And one nanosecond after the copying when one receives sensory impulses that > originated in Moscow and the other receives sensory impulses that > originated in Washington neither would be in precisely the first-person > position they were in before. > > What does that have to do with anything? Is it credible that after all this > verbiage you have failed to grasp the difference between the first-person > position of each copy and a third-person description of both copies > together? Congratulations, John - you really have succeeded in elevating > the straw man argument to a level hitherto unsuspected.
I'm pretty sure John understands the argument but he prefers to give primacy to the objective/third-person viewpoint. The first-person viewpoint involves an assumption that I am a single person travelling through time in the forward direction, which when looked at objectively is an illusion. Some people are offended by illusions. -- Stathis Papaioannou -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en.
