On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 9:47 AM, Terren Suydam <terren.suy...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Then we agree that expectations are important, since the wrong ones can > kill us. > Forget important, expectations are not even meaningful in thought experiments involving people duplicating machines if it is not clearly stated what is being expected. And if there is no way to tell if the prediction made before the duplication turned out to be correct or not even AFTER the duplication is completed because of the frequent use of personal pronouns in a world that contains personal pronoun duplicating machines then the entire exercise is useless. Bruno says there is a thing that can't be predicted because of something he calls first person indeterminacy, but he is unable to say exactly what it is that can't be predicted, but maybe you can do what Bruno can't. Nobody can give a answer if there is no question so precisely what is it that Terren Suydam challenges John Clark to predict and claims can't be done? But please don't do what Bruno does and start talking about "*THE* 1p" without specifying which "*THE *1p" is being referred to because remember, there are "*THE* 1p" duplicating machines on every street corner in this thought experiment. 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 everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
