On Fri, Jul 3, 2015 Bruno Marchal <[email protected]> wrote:
> "you" means the guy who rememeber having push on the button in Helsinki. > OK > > *The* first person experience refers to the unique experience that he will > [ blah blah blah] > STOP RIGHT THERE! Your second sentence contradicts the first! If "he" means the guys who remember pushing the button in Helsinki then there are now 2 beings who deserve the title "he", one is in Moscow and one is in Washington, and there is nothing "unique" about that. And Bruno, there is no need to give your one and only response to criticisms like the above, I'll save you the trouble and give it right now: "you confuse the 1p and the 3p". >> >> Out of that grand multitude only one can inherit the grand title "THE", > > > > > Not at all. All copies will live that unique (the) experience. The > experience is 1-unique, et 3-1 multiple. > > >> >> all the others get the mush less prestigious "a", > > > > > No. "The" refer to each unique experience felt by any copy. > Bruno, I know it's not your first language but in English the words "a" and "the" have different meanings, one implies uniqueness and one does not. > > It helps because we have define here the 1p by the content of the diary. > All talk about a unique experience of being in a unique city. > Maybe that's what Bruno Marchal would write, but if John Clark were the Helsinki Man the diary would say "I expect John Clark to see Moscow AND Washington" and future events would prove that John Clark's expectation was correct, not that predictions, or even the future in general, have anything to do with the sense of personal identity. 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.
