On Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 9:31 PM, LizR <lizj...@gmail.com> wrote: > Obviously if duplication is possible then singular pronouns become plural > ones in the process. >
Yes, and yet Bruno still demands to know what one and only one city *you* will see. And things are not made clear if Bruno adds " from *the* 1P " as if there were only one. > Obviously our language isn't designed to cope with this possibility, > which doesn't happen in real life (yet), hence the pronoun confusion. > Exactly, and Bruno lacks the mental self discipline to just refuse to use personal pronouns in all thought experiments involving duplicating chambers. John Clark admits that not using personal pronouns can result in prose that is a bit clunky and lacking in poetry, but it's still clear and logical and if Bruno wishes to philosophize on these matters it simply must be done. Actually it's even worse than that, after reading Bruno's last few posts John Clark is no longer even sure what Bruno means by "The Helsinki Man". >> 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 > Not even if you were that duplicate?! > How about a duplicate who split off from you a week ago? > A week is far too long for my taste, the thing I don't like about death is having a last thought, so I'd only be happy to face death if a copy of me was made right now. How long is now? About a second, maybe two. 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.
