On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 4:26 AM, Bruno Marchal <[email protected]> wrote:
if you agree that each copy (the W-man, and the M-man) get one bit of > information, > I agree that if that one bit of information that they both see is not identical then the 2 men are no longer identical either and it becomes justified to give them different names. > then you agree with the first person indeterminacy. > I agree that life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you're going to see next. Forrest Gump had that figured out a long time ago. >> As far as personal identity or consciousness or a continuous feeling of >> self is concerned it it totally irrelevant if that prediction, or any other >> prediction for that matter, is confirmed or refuted, nor does it matter if >> the prediction was probabilistic or absolute. >> > > > ? (as far as I can make sense of this sentence, it looks like it makes > my point) > I'm very glad to hear that. But what was your point? John K Clark -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
