Re: Good exchange with Eliezer

From: John Clark (jonkc@worldnet.att.net)
Date: Fri Mar 31 2000 - 11:03:31 MST


Mark Gubrud <mgubrud@squid.umd.edu> Wrote:

>Each of us exists AT THE PRESENT MOMENT as a unique physical
>construction of atoms.

That happens to be true, but it expresses no profound truth, it's just an accident
of history. No reason to expect it always to be true.

> It is possible to say this, but that does not make it unambiguous. For
>example, what if you make two copies simultaneously? Which one,
>then is "you"?

Only one way to tell, ask them. I'll bet you already know what they'll say.
Your entire paragraph of rhetorical questions, that I'll reframe from quoting,
can be answered if you just stop thinking of yourself as a noun. You are
an adjective, an adjective modifying matter.

      John K Clark jonkc@att.net



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