On Wed, 6 Sep 2017 at 1:52 am, John Clark <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 4, 2017 at 11:35 PM, Stathis Papaioannou <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > >> It seems that you have no problem with 1:1 duplication - you agree that >> you survive, just as if you had travelled by plane. >> > > Certainly. And if you put me on a plane and I asked "Where is this plane > going, what one and only one city will I be in tomorrow?" then that would > be a legitimate question because duplication was not involved so the > meaning of the personal pronoun "I" is clear. > > > > >> So what is your position on 1:2 duplication: is it a death sentence? >> > > Certainly not. But if I said "after I am duplicated and become 2 what > one and only one city will I be in?" that would not be a question, that > would just be noises made with my mouth with no more meaning than a burp, > another noise made with the mouth. > How can you anticipate future experiences if it is impossible to even think about it? > -- 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.
