On 5/15/2014 11:31 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote:
On 15 May 2014, at 08:30, Stathis Papaioannou wrote:
On 15 May 2014 16:24, meekerdb <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
On 5/14/2014 9:51 PM, Dennis Ochei wrote:
But then the identity relationship is no longer transitive...
Suppose a brave officer to have been flogged when a boy at school, for
robbing an
orchard, to have taken a standard from the enemy in his first campaign, and
to
have been made a general in advanced life: Suppose also, which must be
admitted to
be possible, that when he took the standard, he was conscious of his having
been
flogged at school, and that when made a general he was conscious of his
taking the
standard, but had absolutely lost the consciousness of his flogging.
These things being supposed, it follows, from Mr LOCKE'S doctrine, that
he who
was flogged at school is the same person who took the standard, and that he
who
took the standard is the same person who was made a general. Whence it
follows, if
there be any truth in logic, that the general is the same person with him
who was
flogged at school. But the general's consciousness does not reach so far
back as
his flogging, therefore, according to Mr LOCKE'S doctrine, he is not the
person
who was flogged. There- fore the general is, and at the same time is not
the same
person with him who was flogged at a school.
Hence the common sense theory that person's are defined by bodily
continuity.
It's only a common sense notion because we can't go around duplicating ourselves,
meeting our duplicates, rewriting our memories and so on.
What we do since we are amoebas. And before.
Amoebas divide - which is not the same as duplicate in the sense of the
Helsinki man.
Brent
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