On 16 May 2014 01:59, meekerdb <[email protected]> wrote: > On 5/14/2014 11:30 PM, Stathis Papaioannou wrote: > > > > > On 15 May 2014 16:24, meekerdb <[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. > > > Another point in favor of the common sense idea. But why would it matter > if we could. Duplicates would be new persons. >
What would happen to the common sense theory of bodily continuity if teleportation, with or without destruction of the original, were possible and commonplace? -- Stathis Papaioannou -- 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.
