From: John K Clark (johnkclark@fastmail.fm)
Date: Wed Feb 04 2009 - 10:13:25 MST
On Wed, 4 Feb 2009 "Stuart Armstrong"
<dragondreaming@googlemail.com> said:
> if my friend duplicates himself, both
> copies are my friend, from my perspective.
Obviously.
> If I duplicate myself, both copies are not
> myself, from my perspective.
How on earth did you make that deduction? If you asked both
of them "are you Stuart Armstrong?" they would both say yes.
What more could you ask? I’ve been hearing this sort of
objection for decades but I’ll be damned if I can see what
gets people all upset.
John K Clay
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