On 4 Jul 2014, at 11:31 am, LizR <[email protected]> wrote: Another bloviating blustering belligerent bellicose bunch of bollocks from Mr Clark follows:
>> For the moment forget what your third grade English teacher may have said >> and answer the following question: For the moment maybe switch off your ego. That little lever down near your intelligence. Flip it. >> in the above thought experiment is the pronoun "he" singular or plural? Once they are emailed they are duplicated so "he" means "they". However no person can experience more than one iteration of themselves. Even after 5 shots of Jäger Meister. That's the First Person Thing you hate, John. We have to use some bloody pronoun now don't we. hG : I propose that following duplication we now write "2he" following the pushing of the teleporter button. Just so Mr Clark gets it. So, the problem is the fact that, once again, language is the greatest barrier to human communication. An even bigger problem than that may well be that others exist like Mr Clark who see this but think, as he does, that by denying it they can prolong some battle that they are determined to win because,hey, winning an argument is as good as contributing to a discussion, right? hB: Wrong. Contributing to a discussion is not about proving someone wrong however many thrills it gives you. >> 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"; Then propose a better term. But you have to understand it first. >> 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. The FPI is plural. You have parallel selves. An enormous, unfathomably large number. Which one you are from moment to moment you cannot know. Language, which is the creation of lousy religious clerics doing bad theology, cannot express this. It is you who should forget what your 1st Grade English teacher told you. Liz: > > 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. This is pretty much how I recently interpreted it for Grade 8 at a girls' private school where I work. They grokked it straight away. But then I guess girls in Grade 8 elite private schools daydream about having parallel lives these days. Kim -- 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.
