On Fri, 11 Aug 2017 at 12:35 am, John Clark <johnkcl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I've asked the following question 4 times and you've refused to answer 4 > times but I'm going to ask for a fifth time because it gets to the very > heart of the topic: > > *Are the following 2 questions equivalent?* > > 1) What will I see tomorrow? > 2) Tomorrow what will the person who remembers being me right now see? > > I can answer that question and the answer is YES. You should be able to > answer it too with a simple YES or NO, and I don't want to hear any pee > dodges of the question because the same level of pee and iterations of pee > and any other convolutions of pee applies equally to both questions. So are > they equivalent or are they not? If you can't provide a simple one word > answer to that question then you quite literally don't know what you're > arguing in favor of and you're wasting your time and ours. > The two questions are not equivalent. Question 2) implies that there will be a unique individual who remembers being me, whereas in fact there will be two of them. Question 2) therefore includes a false proposition about the world. Question 1) does not include any false proposition. > -- Stathis Papaioannou -- 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.
