> On 20 Jul 2019, at 22:27, 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On 7/20/2019 3:16 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: >> Why? You will push on a button. You assume mechanism, so you know you will >> not die, and you know that with mechanism, you cannot survive being in two >> cities and seeing simultaneously the two cities, so it is quite natural to >> ask yourself where you could feel to be after the experience. >> >> There are no relevant counterfactuals here. Everything is simply factual. > > But as JKC endlessly points out, this a confusing based on second person > plural and second person singular being the same word in English.
That is the very reason why we need to be cautious and to make clear if we talk about the first person experience (which we know to be singular for both copies), or if we talk about the third person soul or body, in which case it is a plural. (Second person = third person, of course). > In the south, they say "ya'll" for second person plural, and in New York they > say "youse". I suggest that one of these be used in discussing duplication > thought experiments. You need only the 1/3 distinction, to derive informally the first person indeterminacy. Bruno > > Brent > > -- > 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/97119976-636e-0aa8-ad49-6ce07669a108%40verizon.net. -- 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/3A9335AB-385E-4661-A6A0-5875F8A31A24%40ulb.ac.be.
