On Tue, Sep 8, 2020 at 8:16 PM Bruce Kellett <bhkellet...@gmail.com> wrote:
> *A perfectly reasonable answer to the question asked the night before > duplication is: "I won't be in a room tomorrow morning, because when I am > duplicated with 100 continuers, I cease to exist * Suppose There were no duplication would you also cease to exist? I think the Bruce Kellett of yesterday still exists because somebody today remembers being him, if there is more than 1 all the better. > *and each of the continuers becomes a new, separate person.* None of the identical copies becomes separate people until one of them sees something the others do not, because after that they are no longer identical > This is because there is a tie among the continuers, with no closest > continuer. In that situation, the original ceases, and the continuers are > separate persons." Nobody remembers every little thing they did, said or saw the day before, I hate to tell you this but I secretly made a copy of the Bruce Kellett of yesterday that has a little bit better memory than you do so he is the "closest continuer" not you, so I guess that means you don't exist. So Bruce, how does it feel not to exist? Has nonexistence caused you any problems? *> Now you might not like this answer, * I don't. > but it is perfectly coherent and rational. I don't think so. 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv1fuP9KHJeZV4pzo4Pkv_VcUHCz%2B8AsAKGNN2cNCUzpTw%40mail.gmail.com.
