On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 10:13 PM, LizR <[email protected]> wrote: > The "yes doctor" thing says that if H-guy is destroyed in the process of > being scanned prior to transmission, then he will see >
Then who will see? > M or W (or both, depending on how you want to look at it. I don't want to > get into pronouns at this point). > There is no choice, you just used a personal pronoun at a crucial point so we HAVE to go into it. For the moment forget what your third grade English teacher may have said and answer the following question: in the above thought experiment is the pronoun "he" singular or plural? Bruno can never give a straight answer to that and that is why I flat out refuse to use the silly little provincial homemade term "comp"; it's claimed to just mean "yes doctor" but then Bruno's next utterance is "according to comp *he* will see this but *he* will never see that" and Bruno never even give a hint about who the hell is "he" is supposed to be. > Dr McCoy worries that every time someone goes through the transporter, > he's being murdered and a clone created which only thinks it's the same > person. > Thinking that I'm alive and am John Clark is plenty good enough for me! And I would be absolutely delighted to find out that I had been murdered yesterday because then that would mean that death is not nearly as big a deal as I had thought it was. I can't imagine hearing better news! 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/d/optout.
