On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 10:13 PM, LizR <lizj...@gmail.com> 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 everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
