On Fri, Sep 8, 2017 at 3:00 PM, John Clark <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > On Thu, Sep 7, 2017 at 9:39 AM, Terren Suydam <[email protected]> > wrote: > > No, you said: >> >> True, it's not gibberish. The question is clear, it's about what I expect >>> not what will turn out to be true. I might expect to wake up in Santa >>> Claus's workshop >> >> > If I expected to be in Santa Claus's workshop > > tomorrow and you asked me, not where I will be but where I **expected** > to be > then it would be a real question and "Santa Claus's workshop > " would be the correct answer. I'd write more but at the moment > Hurricane Irma is more on my mind than more of this silliness. > Hope you and yours came through the storm ok. Since the question is about the future, there's no useful distinction between a question about "where I will be" and "where I expect to be". Both questions are about what you expect. Whether I ask you where you will be when you wake up, or if you go through a teleporter, you've acknowledged that the question is not gibberish, in scenarios where *you're not aware* of being duplicated. That said, if you are secretly duplicated, questions about where "you" will be may be gibberish (from your perspective), but that doesn't change the fact that from the first-person point of view, the question is not gibberish. -- 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.
