On 7/30/2016 7:25 PM, John Clark wrote:
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n Sat, Jul 30, 2016 Telmo Menezes <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>>wrote:
>
You have a set of memories
about your past that we can refer to as your "diary".
But there is nothing in the laws of physics to prevent somebody else
from having those exact same memories.
At the level of macroscopic bodies there is. The somebody else can't
occupy the same place at the same time and so must have a different
perspective on all events, and hence different memories, if they are
veridical. Could there be such a person who had false memories and
perceptions exactly matching yours? ...but still physically distinct?
Such a person would be no more than a recording of your thoughts.
There's no physical process whereby exactly the same information could
come to him independently of you.
Brent
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