On 5/15/2014 5:55 PM, Stathis Papaioannou wrote:
On 16 May 2014 01:59, meekerdb <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: On 5/14/2014 11:30 PM, 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.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?
We'd adopt some rule as to who was who. Without destruction it would be the original. With destruction we might say they are equal heirs.
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