On 4 July 2014 07:10, John Clark <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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? >
Two copies of H-man 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. > Obviously if duplication is possible then singular pronouns become plural ones in the process. What I meant was that H man will be duplicated, so after the duplication there will be two copies of him. Obviously our language isn't designed to cope with this possibility, which doesn't happen in real life (yet), hence the pronoun confusion. > > > 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! > Well, perhaps. I'm no so sure I'd be happy that there is a duplicate of me who's OK if I'm facing death. How about a duplicate who split off from you a week ago? Would you be happy to be murdered knowing that he was alive and well, and thinks he's you? -- 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.
