On 16 May 2014 05:54, meekerdb <[email protected]> wrote: > On 5/15/2014 9:13 AM, Dennis Ochei wrote: > > Its pretty obvious that the naive notion cannot handle the split brain > thought experiment or ship of theseus. > > > But you don't know that those are possible. > > > Its also not obvious that a duplicate would be a new person. > > > It's just a semantic choice. > > > There is no such thing as the original particles, all like particles are > indistinguishable. Furthermore, the replication can be done > semiconservatively, where each of the resultant persons get half the > particles of the original, rendering the question moot. Lastly, whether you > are the original or the replica is a completely epiphenomenal distinction. > It isnt physically meaningful. > > > Suppose someone made a duplicate of you. The duplicate claims to own your > house, and goes to court for possession. Do you think the court should not > consider it meaningful that one of you has physical continuity and the > doesn't? How do you decide what's "meaningful" and what isn't? >
If anyone here hasn't seen the play "The Giftie" then my advice is, watch it immediately. I, er, have a copy should anyone want one. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1086852/ PS maybe this should be in the movie recommendation thread, but it's particularly pertinent to this discussion. -- 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/d/optout.
