On Tue, Sep 17, 2019 at 9:10 AM Bruno Marchal <[email protected]> wrote:
>>I think the guy is a bit of an idiot. He starts off badly by equating >> intelligence and consciousness and then it gets worse when he defines the >> personal pronoun "I" by what will happen in the future rather than what >> actually happened in the past. And that was all in the first paragraph, I >> didn't read any further. > > *> But “I” is used in statement concerning the future, or you could not say > “I didn’t read any further”.* > "Did" is the PAST tense form of "do". However personal pronouns are perfectly fine and everybody uses them a thousand times a day, so it would be OK to say "I will not read him in the future" UNLESS: 1) The statement was NOT made in our everyday world where personal pronoun duplicating machines don't exist yet, or... 2) The personal pronoun was used in a thought experiment that was trying to illustrate a point about existentialism and the fundamental nature of personal identity. 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv1uoHkY%2BxUOh%3DkgMHgfw5GPoWQZwL67CDsTD1-WCZS1fg%40mail.gmail.com.
