On Thu, Jul 14, 2016 at 7:42 PM, Jason Resch <jasonre...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> I printed the following "Duplicate Questionnaire" and gave one to both >> John-Washington, and John-Moscow. The >> >> questionnaires each had 8 questions: > > 1. What city did you last recall being in? *Helsinki*2. How many cities >> do you see now? >> *One*3. What is the name of the city you see before you? >> *Washington*4. True/False: You see two cities right now: >> *False*5. True/False: The prediction that you see Washington was: >> *True*6. True/False: The prediction that you see Moscow was: >> *False*7. True/False: The prediction that you see Washington and Moscow >> was: >> *False*8. True/False: The prediction that you see Washington or Moscow >> was: *True* > > And every single one of those 8 questions had the personal pronoun "you" in it, which in a world with people duplicating machines is an ambiguous word, and that means they aren't questions at all they're just a sequence of words with a question mark at the end . And it isn't a thought experiment , it's a thought muddle. So let me help you out by rewriting those questions so they make sense . The answers are in *bold*: 1. What city did John Clark last recall being in? *Helsinki* 2. How many cities do es John Clark see now? *Two* 3. What is the name of a city John Clark sees now ? *Moscow* 4. What is the name of another city John Clark sees now? *Washington* 5 . True/False: John Clark see s two cities right now: *True* 6 . True/False: The prediction that John Clark will see Washington was: * True* 7 . True/False: The prediction that John Clark will see Moscow was: *True* 8 . True/False: The prediction that John Clark see Washington and Moscow was: *True* 9 . True/False: The prediction that John Clark will see Washington or Moscow was: *Dependents on if it's a exclusive "or". * A person duplicating machine duplicates "you". That needs repeating, a person duplicating machine duplicates "you" . All of "you" is duplicated, there is no essential youness or soul that the machine can't duplicate. When "you" is duplicated that means there is more than one, so to then ask what one and only one city "you" will see is just dumb. Equally dumb is to talk about "THE 1p" as if there were only one when that has been duplicated too just like everything else about "you". And neither the John Clark in Washington nor the John Clark in Moscow sees the slightest need to apologize for pointing out this imbecility. 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 https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
