On Sun, Aug 13, 2017 PM, Stathis Papaioannou <[email protected]> wrote:
> > After duplication, the copies will not claim to be the same person any > more, > True but both will claim they are the "I ' who yesterday asked the question "What city will I see?" . Do you think maybe just maybe that could cause a wee bit of confusion and when this sort of thing becomes commonplace the rules on English shouldn't continue on in the same old way they always have? > > > But they will each correctly refer to themselves as "I", > Yes the TWO will refer to themselves as "I" , and the ONE before the duplication that both of the TWO remember being will also referred to himself as "I". And that is why you can bet your bottom dollar the English language will radically change the way it uses personal pronouns the day the engineering difficulties are overcome and "I" duplicating machines become practical. > > > You agree that after the duplication one will say he was right and the > other will say he was wrong, which is an answer > The only one who can answer that question is Mr. I, and Mr. I says the answer is yes and no. Shady politicians may say yes and no is an answer but I don't. >> >> Yes, and >> BOTH are "I: >> >> . And all this is 100% predictable. >> > > > > > But not to the copies > Of course the copies couldn't have predicted what city they will see before the duplication, they didn't exist then!! > > > because it will seem to them that they either got lucky or got unlucky > with the answer. > If the Moscow man is surprised to see Moscow, or after seeing Moscow he is surprised to be informed that he is the Moscow man then the Moscow man isn't very bright. > > > Everyone watching knows exactly what will happen, the subject prior to > duplication knows intellectually exactly what will happen > Yes. > > > but the subject nevertheless has a sense of uncertainty because he feels > he will > > end up in one or other city, but not both. > What a subject "feels" depends entirely on the emotional makeup of the specific subject, no doubt some will feel they will end up in Santa Claus's workshop , but science is about what will happen not what some hillbilly thinks will happen. And by the way, nothing will happen to *THE* subject, something will happen to TWO subjects. > > > you to call it "gibberish" > > where others might use a different word such as "paradoxical". > Two different people remembering being me right now is odd, asking what *one* thing I will see after I become* two *is gibberish, neither is paradoxical. 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 https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
