On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 6:58 PM, John Clark <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > 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.
Ok, so you then also have to agree that John Clark 1 second ago is not identical to John Clark 2 seconds ago. But things would get a bit confusing if I started calling you Mary Sue now. Both you and external observers agree that you are still John Clark. Either you claim that teleportation is fundamentally different from time passing in generating new John Clarks, or you don't. Which one is it? I suspect you think they are the same, but I also predict an attempt to avoid answering the question directly, possibly combined with comparing me to a baboon with below-average IQ and early onset dementia. >> > 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. -- 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.
