Re: Identity

christophe delriviere (darkmichet@bigfoot.com)
Sat, 21 Nov 1998 21:27:23 +0100

hidden wrote:

> Identical in parallel
>
> I have a thought experiment along theses lines which I would Like
> input on
>
> If I appear in a room with an identical of me in a perfectly
> symmetrical room in a
> perfectly symmetrical situation, what can I do to label myself as
> different? i.e. how
> long will I stay in parallel when are minds are no longer connected as
> one.
>

If you consider yourself as a human brain, the answer is forever, because the situations are perfectly symetrical, you will have to be both in two totally identical parrallel universes.

delriviere
christophe