On Fri, 11 Aug 2017 at 12:35 am, John Clark <[email protected]> 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 [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
