From: gts (gts_2000@yahoo.com)
Date: Mon Oct 14 2002 - 19:43:25 MDT
Lee Corbin wrote in reply to Dan Fabulich:
> Recall that we don't have any trouble believing that the same
> person can be at two different times in the same place,
Sorry but I have a problem with that, given that our true geography is
in space-time.
> we should just get used to the idea that the same person can
> be in two different places at the same time.
If you say so. :)
> This is the key point. Call the thinker A, the duplicate B,
> and the person that they both were yesterday C. Now A identifies
> with C and is quick to accede "A and C are the same person".
If so then A must be among those who went to school each morning on the
short bus. Those of us who took the long buses can see that A's current
personality is in part a function of his experiences that C never
experienced.
> It just takes a little while getting used to the alienness of
> the idea, that's all.
True, but then it also takes a while to get used to the alien idea that
2 + 2 = 5.
> IMO, people simply haven't gotten used to the idea of being in two
places
> at the same time.
Or perhaps people simply haven't gotten used to the idea of rejecting
simple common sense. :)
-gts
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