On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 4:26 AM, Bruno Marchal <marc...@ulb.ac.be> 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 everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
