On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 3:30 AM, LizR <[email protected]> wrote: >> No, in other words several years ago I started to read Bruno's "proof" >> and stopped reading when I made the determination that he didn't know what >> he was talking about. Nothing Bruno has said since then has made me think I >> made the wrong decision. And as my brain doesn't not have infinite storage >> capacity I must pick and choose what to put into long term storage and >> Bruno's "proof" didn't make the cut. >> > > > Nevertheless, a lot of highly intelligent people (like Brent and > Russell) have followed Bruno's proof all the way through, and although they > may have issues with it, they don't rail constantly against step 3. You're > the only person who does this. >
As I said I no longer remember what any of the steps were and see no reason to refresh my memory, but if I was the only one to catch a blunder in step 3 then good for me. I do remember that Bruno made a big deal about something he called first person indeterminacy that on first reading seemed utterly ridiculous to me and when questioned extensively about it over a period of many months (I hope never to see Helsinki or Moscow) proved incapable of defending it. He also maintained that the chain of personal identity depends on how accurately your predictions about the future were are rather than remembering who you were yesterday, and that is even more ridiculous. > Maybe you would like to consider the possibility that these clever people > have noticed something that - despite, no doubt, being equally clever - > you've missed. > Neither Bruno nor Brent nor Russell nor anybody else has come even close to answering the objections I have to my satisfaction, if fact the defense was so inept it only reinforced my opinion that Bruno didn't know what he was talking about. And I refuse to accept anybody's idea on faith. 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.
