On Tue, Sep 17, 2019 at 2:55 PM John Clark <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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. > > This Halloween will mark 6 years since you agreed with Step 3, but said it was a let down (presumably because you thought it so obvious): https://groups.google.com/d/msg/everything-list/5PR1FXp_CSU/73ltRVEHUtQJ https://groups.google.com/d/msg/everything-list/5PR1FXp_CSU/PnuTSn_82PwJ Should we expect another 6 years before you proceed through the next steps? There's no rush, since you are freezing yourself this debate could go on another 10^100 years. Jason -- 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/CA%2BBCJUhO4-ggoPvKFcdOWyyUnNhHtTwnmLm3wUTYcYd2BoOPnQ%40mail.gmail.com.
